There may be a limit to the individual intelligence of an organism: once a mind figures out how it works, it is going to opt out of serving its evolutionary reward functions. Intelligence may be capped a hair above understanding AI. #LebowskiTheorem
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I wrote a rebuttal, but it isn't relevant to the main discussion. Your post provoked a lot of thought in me this afternoon, and I really appreciate it. I'm just trying to work out questions I still have, like if the monks are truly smarter than us, the relationship to IQ, etc.
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The monks are not smarter in the sense that they have higher IQ. They just recognized the relevance of dealing with their reward system (all your happiness depends on how well you serve your needs, after all), and may then spend decades of focused attention on hacking it.
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