From: Sampo Syreeni (decoy@iki.fi)
Date: Tue Aug 22 2006 - 07:56:52 MDT
On 2006-08-22, Ben Goertzel wrote:
> There is a lot of diversity among peoples' cognitive mechanisms.
I'd add that people often concentrate on the parts of cognition that are
not easily changed (perhaps because of locus of control effects). But
there are also tons of easily learnable cognitive habits that can make a
real difference in practice. For example, consciously minding cognitive
biases and logical fallacies, and making a habit of double checking
lengthy chains of reasoning can easily push one's performance past that
of a highly intelligent yet sloppy person, at least in some tasks.
The way I see it, IQ does accurately measure one's raw MIPS, but doesn't
really tell all too much about the software one's throwing those MIPS
at.
-- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:decoy@iki.fi, tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2
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