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Technological and scientific progress is driven much less by curiosity or idealism than by competition and conflict. Historically, most advances have military origins. This, too, says something about intelligence
To develop intelligence, we need an advanced sensorimotor space and a complex & challenging environment. For humans, intra-species competition provides the latter. The bottleneck of our intelligence is not our brain (which is flexible & optimizable), but everything surrounding it
Yes it says that we're primitive monkeys with over sized brains and way too much power. It is absolutely sad how much of a role Military has played in our technological advancement. We should have aimed for tech advancement from a "for-the-benefit-of-Humanity" perspective.
Dudes Isaac Newton invented calculus to improve ballistics as much as to calculate the motions of the planets. Tech innovation is inextricably linked to military. Computer chips, the internet. Time to put on big boy pants.
Technological progress, yes, scientific, no. Conflict and competition demands applicability, scientific progress doesn't. The most important sciences have been developed when they were not applicable at all, even neural networks.
Science does not descend from heavens. Neural networks emerged from electrical networks, which was proved its applicability in the heyday of WW2.
Why people would invent stuff when they're comfortable or not in conflict: people and nations can devote more money and effort toward scientific research and pursue non-immediate goals when they aren't actively fighting for survival.
This is true. Also breakthrough in ancient technology intended for competition and conflict (i.e. stone hand axes) gave rise to language, human society, culture, etc.
This reminds me of the scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey where early humans are seen fighting before the camera suddenly pans up to a scene in the distant future with a manmade spaceship in orbit.
About game theory and axiology, but from an evolutionary point of view, the underlying causes for those two are also relevant for intelligence, and concerning
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