Can you clarify the relationship between my comment and counterproductive effects of intelligence in general? I’m either not quite following your reasoning, or wasn’t quite clear about mine.
A general-purpose intelligence will, all things being equal, get better results with more data.
But we evolved our cognitive architecture not in the context of a general-purpose intelligence, but rather in the context of a set of cognitive modules that operated adaptively on particular sets of data to perform particular functions. Providing those modules with a superset of that data might well have gotten counterproductive results, not because intelligence is counterproductive, but because they didn’t evolve to handle that superset.
In that kind of environment, sharing all data among all cognitive modules might well have counterproductive effects… again, not because intelligence is counterproductive, but because more data can be counterproductive to an insufficiently general intelligence.
The existence of evolved ‘modules’ within the frontal cortex is not settled science and is in fact controversial. It’s indeed hard to tell how much data do we share, though. Maybe without habit of abstract thought, not so much. On other hand the data about human behaviours seem important.
Can you clarify the relationship between my comment and counterproductive effects of intelligence in general? I’m either not quite following your reasoning, or wasn’t quite clear about mine.
A general-purpose intelligence will, all things being equal, get better results with more data.
But we evolved our cognitive architecture not in the context of a general-purpose intelligence, but rather in the context of a set of cognitive modules that operated adaptively on particular sets of data to perform particular functions. Providing those modules with a superset of that data might well have gotten counterproductive results, not because intelligence is counterproductive, but because they didn’t evolve to handle that superset.
In that kind of environment, sharing all data among all cognitive modules might well have counterproductive effects… again, not because intelligence is counterproductive, but because more data can be counterproductive to an insufficiently general intelligence.
The existence of evolved ‘modules’ within the frontal cortex is not settled science and is in fact controversial. It’s indeed hard to tell how much data do we share, though. Maybe without habit of abstract thought, not so much. On other hand the data about human behaviours seem important.