People also disagree greatly about how much humans tend towards integration rather than non-integration, and how much human skill comes from domain transfer. And I think some / a lot of the beliefs about artificial intelligence are downstream of these beliefs about the origins of biological intelligence and human expertise, i.e., in Yudkowsky / Ngo dialogues. (Object level: Both the LW-central and alternatives to the LW-central hypotheses seem insufficiently articulated; they operate as a background hypothesis too large to see rather than something explicitly noted, imo.)
People also disagree greatly about how much humans tend towards integration rather than non-integration, and how much human skill comes from domain transfer.
Makes me wonder whether most of what people believe to be “domain transfer” could simply be IQ.
I mean, suppose that you observe a person being great at X, then you make them study Y for a while, and it turns out that they are better at Y than an average person who spend the same time studying Y.
One observer says: “Clearly some of the skills at X have transferred to the skills of Y.”
Another observer says: “You just indirectly chose a smart person (by filtering for high skills at X), duh.”
Good articulation.
People also disagree greatly about how much humans tend towards integration rather than non-integration, and how much human skill comes from domain transfer. And I think some / a lot of the beliefs about artificial intelligence are downstream of these beliefs about the origins of biological intelligence and human expertise, i.e., in Yudkowsky / Ngo dialogues. (Object level: Both the LW-central and alternatives to the LW-central hypotheses seem insufficiently articulated; they operate as a background hypothesis too large to see rather than something explicitly noted, imo.)
Makes me wonder whether most of what people believe to be “domain transfer” could simply be IQ.
I mean, suppose that you observe a person being great at X, then you make them study Y for a while, and it turns out that they are better at Y than an average person who spend the same time studying Y.
One observer says: “Clearly some of the skills at X have transferred to the skills of Y.”
Another observer says: “You just indirectly chose a smart person (by filtering for high skills at X), duh.”