alt Hacker NewsI am not enthusiastic about criteria for human-like intelligence that imply that dyslexic people don't have human-like intelligence.
[EDITED to add:] I actually don't know whether dyslexic people find it difficult to count letters in words, if they have them already written down by someone else. I suspect they find it harder than people who aren't dyslexic. But perhaps "blind people whose spelling is poor" would have been better; I would not want to deny them human-like intelligence either.
I have slight dyslexia. I can't automatically write double consonants all the time.
But counting certain type of letters is very simple algorithmic task especially in written text. Any reasonably intelligent actually thinking thing should come up with algo and then execute it. Which to me sounds like reasonable minimum bar for general intelligence.