Re: First replicable human IE?

From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Sat Jun 21 2003 - 17:49:02 MDT


Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/magazine/22SAVANT.html?pagewanted=all
>
> The usual caveats about journalism apply... but... this is pretty cool.
> (IE == "intelligence enhancement")
>

Is it just me or does the procedure followed in these experiments suffer
both from letting the subjects pre-practice the task to be measured, and
also probably a significant placebo effect?

-- 
Brian Atkins
Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
http://www.intelligence.org/


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