Comments on: for erik, re: angles of approach, aka the bigger-than-burningman convo i wasn’t sure how to begin as we walked home across the UCSD campus with much in our arms and minds and hearts http://kynthiabru.net/blog/archives/454 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:58:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Erik http://kynthiabru.net/blog/archives/454#comment-37589 Erik Mon, 01 Oct 2007 08:21:39 +0000 http://kynthiabru.net/blog/archives/454#comment-37589 <i>Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode, and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point.</i> All adaptation is intelligence. reception, decoding, transmission, and efficiency are only sometimes adaptive. <i>If stupidity decreased, less money would be wasted on vast organized imbecilities</i> According to whom? Does he have any clue why these imbecilities happen in the first place? The military-industrial complex is highly adaptive, and therefore highly intelligent. It's smart enough to last for centuries. It's probably not smart enough to last millenia, but then neither is Wilson. <i>There is nothing rationally desirable that cannot be achieved sooner if rationality itself increases.</i> What evidence do we have that rationality is somehow the key to all problems? <i>Work to achieve Intelligence Intensification is work to achieve all our other sane and worthwhile goals.</i> Or maybe it's a distraction from them. <i>“the only purpose in work on consciousness is to decrease the amount of violence in the world.”</i> Tell that to Dan Dennett. <i>We are talking of, say, Beethoven’s intelligence, which so disturbed Lenin, who could not bear to listen to the Appassionata (Sonata 23) because it made him “want to weep and pat people on the head.</i> Is Lenin really a typical case? We are meant to believe that a lack of intelligent art is the reason why high school educated carpenter Joe Blow in western Massachussettes beats his wife? Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode, and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point.

All adaptation is intelligence. reception, decoding, transmission, and efficiency are only sometimes adaptive.

If stupidity decreased, less money would be wasted on vast organized imbecilities

According to whom? Does he have any clue why these imbecilities happen in the first place? The military-industrial complex is highly adaptive, and therefore highly intelligent. It’s smart enough to last for centuries. It’s probably not smart enough to last millenia, but then neither is Wilson.

There is nothing rationally desirable that cannot be achieved sooner if rationality itself increases.

What evidence do we have that rationality is somehow the key to all problems?

Work to achieve Intelligence Intensification is work to achieve all our other sane and worthwhile goals.

Or maybe it’s a distraction from them.

“the only purpose in work on consciousness is to decrease the amount of violence in the world.”

Tell that to Dan Dennett.

We are talking of, say, Beethoven’s intelligence, which so disturbed Lenin, who could not bear to listen to the Appassionata (Sonata 23) because it made him “want to weep and pat people on the head.

Is Lenin really a typical case? We are meant to believe that a lack of intelligent art is the reason why high school educated carpenter Joe Blow in western Massachussettes beats his wife?

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