General intelligence - Arbital
Compared to chimpanzees, humans seem to be able to learn a much wider variety of domains. We have 'significantly more generally applicable' cognitive abilities, aka 'more general intelligence'.
x General intelligence — LessWrong Main LW Wiki General intelligence Edited by Eliezer Yudkowsky , et al. last updated 20th Feb 2025 Definition Although humans share 95% of their DNA with chimpanzees, and have brains only three times as large as chimpanzee brains, humans appear to be far better than chimpanzees at learning an enormous variety of cognitive domains . A bee is born with the ability to construct hives; a beaver is born with an instinct for building dams; a human looks at both and imagines a gigantic dam with a honeycomb structure of internal reinforcement. Arguendo, some set of fa
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