I have used the WIS/INT dichotomy in past and see it differently. Hopefully not arguing about meaning of words :) For me WIS/INT are factors of intelligence, and likely positively correlated, but I will only look at them as factors.
A generator can display WIS, not just a validator. Indeed, responding to your own informal incentives when generating plans is WIS (whereas finding a cleaver exploit is INT, and both can be used for wise or cleaver ends). WIS can have a strong validator, but so can INT; WIS generates in ways that scales with the validator, never pushing it; INT pushes any validator that isn’t much mightier than itself. If WIS was a machine, it would Optimize Mildly.
Morally speaking, INT lets you achieve what you want, WIS lets you want “better” things. In terms of how you take in a problem, INT lets you juggle lots of pieces, and be comfortable zooming out, considering the long term etc..., WIS makes you try to zoom out, makes you try to learn from your mistakes, try to not juggle so many pieces. INT can let you optimize one thing very well, WIS tries to hold things together, and not forget to watch for side effects as you optimize.
WIS might have more to do with personality than IQ, or it might be more a skill, cultural, acquired. I think it is possible to be very wise and very dumb. I think it is possible to be very wise and very smart.
I am also very curious about why people can be so smart and nevertheless work on the “wrong” thing. Perhaps reflectivity is also a source of WIS. From my perspective, very smart people who work on the “wrong” thing are simply not realizing that they can apply their big brain to figure out what to do, and perhaps this is more easy to realize when you see your brain’s functioning as a mechanical thing akin somewhat to what you learn about at the object level.
Similarly, when I try to empathize with supergeniuses that work on some pointless problem as their world is speedrunning the apocalypse, I have trouble visualizing it. I think perhaps WIS is also the ability for somewhat obvious things to occur to you at the right time, and to maintain a unified view of yourself over time.
I have used the WIS/INT dichotomy in past and see it differently. Hopefully not arguing about meaning of words :) For me WIS/INT are factors of intelligence, and likely positively correlated, but I will only look at them as factors.
A generator can display WIS, not just a validator. Indeed, responding to your own informal incentives when generating plans is WIS (whereas finding a cleaver exploit is INT, and both can be used for wise or cleaver ends). WIS can have a strong validator, but so can INT; WIS generates in ways that scales with the validator, never pushing it; INT pushes any validator that isn’t much mightier than itself. If WIS was a machine, it would Optimize Mildly.
Morally speaking, INT lets you achieve what you want, WIS lets you want “better” things. In terms of how you take in a problem, INT lets you juggle lots of pieces, and be comfortable zooming out, considering the long term etc..., WIS makes you try to zoom out, makes you try to learn from your mistakes, try to not juggle so many pieces. INT can let you optimize one thing very well, WIS tries to hold things together, and not forget to watch for side effects as you optimize.
WIS might have more to do with personality than IQ, or it might be more a skill, cultural, acquired. I think it is possible to be very wise and very dumb. I think it is possible to be very wise and very smart.
I am also very curious about why people can be so smart and nevertheless work on the “wrong” thing. Perhaps reflectivity is also a source of WIS. From my perspective, very smart people who work on the “wrong” thing are simply not realizing that they can apply their big brain to figure out what to do, and perhaps this is more easy to realize when you see your brain’s functioning as a mechanical thing akin somewhat to what you learn about at the object level.
Similarly, when I try to empathize with supergeniuses that work on some pointless problem as their world is speedrunning the apocalypse, I have trouble visualizing it. I think perhaps WIS is also the ability for somewhat obvious things to occur to you at the right time, and to maintain a unified view of yourself over time.