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Article 6583 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: bill@nsma.arizona.edu (Bill Skaggs)
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Subject: Re: Defining intelligence
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Date: 9 Aug 92 19:46:42 GMT
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In-Reply-To: marky@dip.eecs.umich.edu's message of 8 Aug 92 20: 31:53 GMT

marky@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Mark Anthony Young) writes:

   > The appropriate definition for "more intelligent" is:
   >
   >  "X is more intelligent than me if X behaves like me, but doesn't
   >   do all the stupid things I do."

When you put it that way, it's circular, because stupidity is the same
thing as lack of intelligence.

   > That is, it does things the way I would if I'd had more time to
   > think about them, or that I would do given its example.

This seems pretty close to the mark (no pun intended).  It's not at
all the same thing as the preceding definition.

	-- Bill


