general intelligence is not a task specific skill, but the ability to quickly and sample-efficiently pick up any new task.

It is relatively easy to write an algorithm or train a model to solve a specifc task, even ARC, better than every human, especially if we just throw so much compute at it in order to model the entire distribution, i.e. brute-force it the deep-learning way, or spend a lot of compute doing discrete program search to solve it.

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Is the cognitive lightcone a quantification of the generality of intelligence?

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In order for a system to posses general intelligence, it has to have some concept of movement!

It has to be able to move through time / mathematical concepts / links on the internet / … some reference frame.
In order to move, it needs to interact with this environment.


General intelligence is a degree of generality comparable to human intelligence.

See: human intelligence / intelligence notes for definitions (general intelligence = human intelligence).