Intelligence is model-limited in a way stupidity is not.
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Replying to @vgr
If you think of "intelligence" as consistency, then this is a major topic in philosophy of statistics. I wrote about this, but it is too long to quote quickly. https://stochastictalk.blogspot.com/2018/03/two-dogmas-of-bayesianism.html …
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Replying to @C_Trombley1 @vgr
It's in the part between: "Related to this is that Dutch Book hypothesis ..." and "But to avoid this by assuming that we are living in a world which is functionally only blue jays seems an unforced restriction."
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Replying to @C_Trombley1
Oh very nice, you worked out some of the evolutionary arguments I had in mind
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Replying to @vgr @C_Trombley1
I may circle back to chat with you about this when I get to that part of the thing I'm thinking through.
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Replying to @vgr
Nothing original about it - it's all in Skyrms & Dawkins & Maynard Smith & etc etc etc (except any mistakes, which I invented wholesale)
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Replying to @C_Trombley1 @vgr
In particular, the distinction between cuckoos and blue jays is due to Alan Hajek (I made up the biological analogy tho)
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Hmm intelligence, predictable irrationality, unpredictable irrationality...
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