Intelligence Is Not Knowledge
YiMaTweets · x · 2026-07-11
A forwarded opinion argues that knowledge is not intelligence; intelligence is more like a combination of compression ability and self-correction loops. The poster also contends that true intelligence should be derivable from first principles, more like an interpretable white box rather than a black box brute-forced by massive compute.
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