There should be also a factor about resource consumption. See here: https://lorenzopieri.com/pgii/
But if we'd take this into consideration would it mean that 1st world engineer is by definition less inteligent than 3rd world one?
I think the (completely reasonable) knee jerk reaction is a definsive one, but I can imagine absolutarian regime escapee working side-by-side an engineer groomed in expensive, air conditioned lecture rooms. In this imaginary scenario escapee, even if slower and less efficient at the problem at hand would have to be more intelligent generally.
Yes, resource consumption is important. But your car guzzling a lot of gas doesn't mean he drives slower. It just means it drives slower per mol of petrol consumed.
It's good to know whether your system has a high or low 'bang for buck' metric, but that doesn't directly affect how much bang you get.
All else equal, a student who gets 100% on a problem set in 10 minutes is more intelligent than one with the same score after 120 minutes. Likewise an LLM that can respond in 2 seconds is more impressive than one which responds in 30 seconds.
According to my mathematical model, the faster student would have higher effectiveness, not necessarily higher intelligence. Resource consumption and speed are practical technological concerns, but they're irrelevant in a theorical conceptualization of intelligence.
So a human with a better response time, also tends to give you more intelligent answers, even when time is not a factor.
For a computer, you can arbitrarily slow them down (or speed them up), and still get the same answer.
Imagine you take an extraordinarily smart person, and put them on a fast spaceship that causes time dilation.
Does that mean that they are stupider while in transit, and they regain their intelligence when it slows down?
If we are required to break the seal on the black-box and investigate the exactly how the agent is operating in order to judge its "intelligence"... Doesn't that kinda ruin the up-thread stuff about judging with equations?
They will still complete the task in 70 local minutes, even if that's eighty of an outside observer's.