#intelligence-quotes

[thepersonalwords]

A drop of sense can save you an ocean of tears.

Matshona Dhliwayo

[quotelr]

If you feed a bird, you don't have to force it to come to you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

[lilislegacy]

percy: *intensely watching the news, waiting to hear about something he may have caused*

piper: come on percy, come eat with us. you’ve been sitting there waiting for hours. if something happens, you’ll hear about it eventually. a watched pot never boils

percy, distractedly: yeah and an ignored one boils over

piper: that-

piper, turning to annabeth in confusion: have i been spending too much time with him or is that one of the most logical things i’ve ever heard someone say?

[noosphe-re]

"There was an exchange on Twitter a while back where someone said, ‘What is artificial intelligence?' And someone else said, 'A poor choice of words in 1954'," he says. "And, you know, they’re right. I think that if we had chosen a different phrase for it, back in the '50s, we might have avoided a lot of the confusion that we're having now." So if he had to invent a term, what would it be? His answer is instant: applied statistics. "It's genuinely amazing that...these sorts of things can be extracted from a statistical analysis of a large body of text," he says. But, in his view, that doesn't make the tools intelligent. Applied statistics is a far more precise descriptor, "but no one wants to use that term, because it's not as sexy".

'The machines we have now are not conscious', Lunch with the FT, Ted Chiang, by Madhumita Murgia, 3 June/4 June 2023

[philosophybits]

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

[knightofleo]

Angela Orosco Silent Hill 2

[mindfulstudyquest]

intelligent girls are attractive. believe in a good education. learn to speak in another language and know what's going on in the world.

[charliejaneanders]

Imagine what it would look like if ChatGPT were a lossless algorithm. If that were the case, it would always answer questions by providing a verbatim quote from a relevant Web page. We would probably regard the software as only a slight improvement over a conventional search engine, and be less impressed by it. The fact that ChatGPT rephrases material from the Web instead of quoting it word for word makes it seem like a student expressing ideas in her own words, rather than simply regurgitating what she’s read; it creates the illusion that ChatGPT understands the material. In human students, rote memorization isn’t an indicator of genuine learning, so ChatGPT’s inability to produce exact quotes from Web pages is precisely what makes us think that it has learned something. When we’re dealing with sequences of words, lossy compression looks smarter than lossless compression.

Ted Chiang’s essay about ChatGPT is required reading

[gabihime-jegulusseeker]

regulus incorrect quotes

Sirius: Sooooo do you have a crush on anybody???

Regulus: The only crush I have is this crushing anxiety

Regulus: oh, and your best friend

Sirius: YOU HAVE A CRUSH ON MOONY?

Regulus:.... you know what? I'm going to leave and let you figure out that one on your own

[bittsandpieces]

politically I'm anti gun. but sexually? put it in my mouth and flick the safety off

[thepersonalwords]

Faith moves mountains, intelligence goes over them, wisdom goes around them, but love levels them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

[acti-veg]

‘While bats can only sense the outer shapes and textures of their targets, dolphins can peer inside theirs. If a dolphin echolocates on you, it will perceive your lungs and your skeleton. It can likely sense shrapnel in war veterans and fetuses in pregnant women. It can pick out the air-filled swim bladders that allow fish, their main prey, to control their buoyancy.

It can almost certainly tell different species apart based on the shape of those air bladders. And it can tell if a fish has something weird inside it, like a metal hook. In Hawaii, false killer whales often pluck tuna off fishing lines, and “they’ll know where the hook is inside that fish,” Aude Pacini, who studies these animals, tells me. “They can ‘see’ things that you and I would never consider unless we had an X-ray machine or an MRI scanner.”

This penetrating perception is so unusual that scientists have barely begun to consider its implications. The beaked whales, for example, are odontocetes that look dolphin-esque on the outside—but on the inside, their skulls bear a strange assortment of crests, ridges, and bumps, many of which are only found in males.

Pavel Gol’din has suggested that these structures might be the equivalent of deer antlers—showy ornaments that are used to attract mates. Such ornaments would normally protrude from the body in a visible and conspicuous way, but that’s unnecessary for animals that are living medical scanners.’

-Ed Yong, An Immense World

[lilislegacy]

piper: after everything you two have been through over the last 25 years, what are the most terrifying and brutal beasts you guys have ever faced?

everyone leaning in, ready for a good story:

percy: oh that would be our children

annabeth: *nodding slowly with wide eyes as she has flashbacks*

[awacadoz]

[philosophybits]

You are immensely clever if you are able to hide your cleverness.

François de La Rochefoucauld, Moral Reflections

[dangerousdesiress]