"Without qualitative improvements to the structure of intelligence, we will just keep making the same mistakes, only faster. Experiments have shown that you cannot train humans to avoid certain measurable, predictable statistical errors in reasoning. They just keep making them again and again."
This is a very well replicated result. The research program that discovered this is mentioned in
that provides many examples of errors in reasoning that are equally common in high-IQ and low-IQ people, with abundant citations to the primary research literature.
"A person with an IQ of 100 cannot understand certain concepts that people with an IQ of 140 can understand, no matter how many time and notebooks they have. Intelligence means being able to get the right answer the first time, not after a million tries."
Both of these statements from the submitted blog post are specifically contradicted, with citations to published evidence, in the book I have just mentioned. And this paragraph from the blog post is in partial contradiction to the first quoted paragraph from the blog post, which correctly says, "Experiments have shown that you cannot train humans to avoid certain measurable, predictable statistical errors in reasoning."
Most errors of reasoning in humans are the result of our evolutionary background, there is no reason to expect these in a machine intelligence, even in one less intelligent than a human. It is not even necessary that a different set of systematic errors will be present, though that is a possibility.
This is a very well replicated result. The research program that discovered this is mentioned in
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/stanovich1
with suggestions for new kinds of mental tests. The same author has a new book
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=97803001238...
that provides many examples of errors in reasoning that are equally common in high-IQ and low-IQ people, with abundant citations to the primary research literature.
"A person with an IQ of 100 cannot understand certain concepts that people with an IQ of 140 can understand, no matter how many time and notebooks they have. Intelligence means being able to get the right answer the first time, not after a million tries."
Both of these statements from the submitted blog post are specifically contradicted, with citations to published evidence, in the book I have just mentioned. And this paragraph from the blog post is in partial contradiction to the first quoted paragraph from the blog post, which correctly says, "Experiments have shown that you cannot train humans to avoid certain measurable, predictable statistical errors in reasoning."