“Самым большим дефицитом всегда был и остаётся дефицит ума.”
“Brian White, Scientist, on Quora.com: Measures of desirable life outcomes are positively correlated with IQ, while the undesirable outcomes are negatively correlated with IQ. More intelligence means that there is a higher probability that a positive correlate will be found and that a negative correlate will not. More intelligent people are more likely to have these outcomes: higher income, increased longevity, greater general health, more life satisfaction, higher degree of body symmetry, higher educational achievement (grades, years completed, difficulty of major), higher SES (a product of intelligence, not a cause of it), faster speed of mental functions, better memory, faster learning rate, greater number of interests (held with competence), higher job performance, higher brain efficiency (relative to glucose uptake rate and speed of mental operations). And … they are less likely to smoke, have lower HIV infection rate, lower crime rate, less time incarcerated, fewer school dropouts, lower teen pregnancy rate, fewer illegitimate births, and less unemployment.”
“Brian White, scientist, on Quora.com: Some people still want to believe that SES is the cause of intelligence. They see low SES children doing poorly in school, not going to college, and having troubled lives. We now know that intelligence is the cause of SES, not the result of it. One of the truly elegant studies in the history of intelligence research is described in Jencks, C. (1979). Who gets ahead? The determinants of economic success in America. New York: Basic Books. Jencks compared the adult SES of brothers reared together. He found that the brother with the higher childhood IQ was statistically more likely to be at the higher adult SES. The environment was controlled, it was simply a matter of IQ as a cause that determined how they did in adult life. Another excellent and more detailed discussion of the cause of SES can be found in Jensen, A. R. (1998). The g factor: The science of mental ability. Westport, CT: Praeger.”
“Given some recent events, he d come to doubt whether being a great warrior was all some made it out to be. But now he d seen great warriors save the entire corbi race. And Liala had led them, not with bravado and shouting, but with calculation, patience and reason. Being a warrior, then, was more than just one thing. The best warriors, like Liala, Styx, Captain Debogande and Major Thakur, were far more than just brave and dangerous.”
“I rarely see intelligence used intelligently.”
“23 Lottery Winners Who Lost Millions Andrew Lisa/Yahoo Finance: Mickey Carroll was only 19 years old when he won a British jackpot that sent him into early adulthood with the equivalent of $11.8 million. The media dubbed him the “Lotto Lout” as the young winner tore through his newfound fortune with astonishing speed. Much of it went to drug-fueled partying, with the rest wasted on jewelry, cars and other materialistic excesses. As of 2016, he was earning a few hundred dollars a week working in a slaughterhouse.”
“The pen. To child - a toy. To youth - a curiosity. To mature - a pen. To intelligent - the tip of a spear. To creative - an arrow. To angels - music. To god - a sun.”
“You cannot rely on your intelligence to move mountains; you need a great deal of Grace, but that requires faith.”
“Will finds the way but skill gets the credit.”
“Κέρδισα, μα θα μπορούσα να είχα χάσει. Οι άλλοι με θεώρησαν σοφό επειδή κέρδισα, δεν γνώριζαν όμως τις πολυάριθμες περιπτώσεις όπου υπήρξα ανόητος επειδή έχασα, και δεν ήξεραν ότι λίγες στιγμές πριν κερδίσω δεν ήμουν καν σίγουρος ότι δεν είχα χάσει... ..Κι έτσι για να μην φανώ αργότερα ανόητος, αρνούμαι να φανώ έξυπνος τώρα.”
“Getting something and having the wits to use it…those are two different things.”
“When I look around, I sometimes feel discouraged. Why do people make no more effort? They do nothing and yet they complain that it is unfair. I looked speechless at the ham. The way I look at it, people make an effort so that they are about to sign, but maybe I m wrong They do not exert themselves, they just toil in it, he said without further ado. It has nothing to do with the type of effort I m talking about. It s more active and focused.”
“To abolish hope is to bring the thought back to the body. And the body is doomed to perish.”
“If men create intelligent machines, or fantasize about them, it is either because they secretly despair of their own intelligence or because they are in danger of succumbing to the weight of a monstrous and useless intelligence which they seek to exorcize by transferring it to machines, where they can play with it and make fun of it. By entrusting this burdensome intelligence to machines we are released from any responsibility to knowledge, much as entrusting power to politicians allows us to disdain any aspiration of our own to power. If men dream of machines that are unique, that are endowed with genius, it is because they despair of their own uniqueness, or because they prefer to do without it - to enjoy it by proxy, so to speak, thanks to machines. What such machines offer is the spectacle of thought, and in manipulating them people devote themselves more to the spectacle of thought than to thought itself. It is not for nothing that they are described as virtual , for they put thought on hold indefinitely, tying its emergence to the achievement of a complete knowledge. The act of thinking itself is thus put off for ever. Indeed, the question of thought can no more be raised than the question of the freedom of future generations, who will pass through life as we travel through the air, strapped into their seats. These Men of Artificial Intelligence will traverse their own mental space bound hand and foot to their computers. Immobile in front of his computer, Virtual Man makes love via the screen and gives lessons by means of the teleconference. He is a physical - and no doubt also a mental cripple. That is the price he pays for being operational. Just as eyeglasses and contact lenses will arguably one day evolve into implanted prostheses for a species that has lost its sight, it is similarly to be feared that artificial intelligence and the hardware that supports it will become a mental prosthesis for a species without the capacity for thought. Artificial intelligence is devoid of intelligence because it is devoid of artifice.”
“I know you’re clever, but do you really think you’re going to outsmart the ocean?”
“Debates are just intelligent entertainment.”
“Yann LeCun s strategy provides a good example of a much more general notion: the exploitation of innate knowledge. Convolutional neural networks learn better and faster than other types of neural networks because they do not learn everything. They incorporate, in their very architecture, a strong hypothesis: what I learn in one place can be generalized everywhere else. The main problem with image recognition is invariance: I have to recognize an object, whatever its position and size, even if it moves to the right or left, farther or closer. It is a challenge, but it is also a very strong constraint: I can expect the very same clues to help me recognize a face anywhere in space. By replicating the same algorithm everywhere, convolutional networks effectively exploit this constraint: they integrate it into their very structure. Innately, prior to any learning, the system already “knows” this key property of the visual world. It does not learn invariance, but assumes it a priori and uses it to reduce the learning space-clever indeed!”