From: Zenarchy (J.R.Molloy@shasta.com)
Date: Mon Nov 30 1998 - 17:09:35 MST
From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky <sentience@pobox.com>
>Yes, a famous case. But you'll note that Sidis didn't exhibit any
>intelligence other than that of a modern computer: Eidetic memory plus
>lightning calculator, the stereotypical characteristics that small children
>ask alleged geniuses to exhibit. The moral, maybe, is that if you're dumb
>enough to be taken in by stereotypes and you push your child hard enough,
he
>or she will turn into a computer at the price of real cognitive functions.
Quite so. Also, at the price of transhuman cognitive functions. <g> --J. R.
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