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Counter Point: ALL software is someone else's intelligence.

Almost all of our intelligence is someone else's. That is what education does.

This brings up an interesting question: are we intelligent when we merely employ models, or only when we extrapolate from them?

In other words, does a maximally-parsimonious theory contain all the knowledge you need, or is there something extra (typically called "reasoning") that is needed to perform analysis on and draw conclusions from such a model?

Godel would say you can always break the system.

Game theory would say there are dominant strategies, and sometimes they require guessing or bluffing.

Economics would say, once too many people are using a dominant strategy, it's time to switch it up.

Almost all of our intelligence is embodied "animal intelligence" that can perceive, navigate, manipulate, adapt, survive, and reproduce -- online, in real time, in the presence of noise, without backpropagation. This doesn't come from formal education but "self-supervised learning" or experience.

I skimmed the article, so I am not sure how valid my comment is. But this whole blog post feels like: ALL [encoded forms of knowledge] is someone else's intelligence.

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