Matt, Regarding computing power, our "clock speed" can be measured by observing our reaction times, which vary WIDELY depending upon things like body temperature.
You can test your own "clock speed" in a few seconds here: https://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/java/redgreen.html My own times vary over a ~2:1 range, from 1/4 second when I am wide awake and at 98.6F, to 1/2 second in the morning after missing some sleep. Some people with really low body temperature problems can stretch out to a second. Imagine driving with most of a second of additional reaction time. I have a car that does this for me in wet weather, where its disk brakes can take most of a second to completely strip the water off of its brake rotors. This can be really annoying/scary, so I prefer to drive another vehicle during wet weather. Speed aside, I have observed good correlation between reaction times and how I do on computer games, where poor reaction times correlates with my making more dumb mistakes. I suspect that it isn't the raw speed that is key, but rather that in slowing things down, temporal coincidences are being missed, etc. Presumably computers wouldn't have these same issues - or would they, as excessive decision delays can be more dangerous than poor decisions, so perhaps even computers would be "pushed" to make decisions faster than they can be refined. Steve On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Matt Mahoney via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Tim Tyler via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > > IQ tests are timed and typically presented in restricted environments. > > The questioner can give themselves much more time to prepare and > > research the question - and can draw on external resources. > > > > It is also much easier to ask questions with known answers than it is > > to answer them - at least in some domains. This is the basis of 'one-way' > > functions. The best-known example involves large composite numbers > > that are the product of two large prime numbers. Creating such a > > 'factoring' question is much easier than answering it - even if you > > have the exact same space-time resources available to you. > > Yes, you're right. Intelligence depends on both knowledge and > computing power. We can measure computing power in someone who can > think faster or remember more than us. > > This also applies to recursive self improvement. You can redesign > yourself or make a copy with more computing power, but not more > knowledge. > > -- > -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/10443978-6f4c28ac > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > -- Full employment can be had with the stoke of a pen. Simply institute a six hour workday. That will easily create enough new jobs to bring back full employment. ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
