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To: tortoise

I specifically asked how/whether this esoteric math, which supposedly defines intelligence more eloquently than a dictionary, is capable of assessing the type or amount of intelligence needed to, for example, build a car. Or is this math simply an attempt at measuring the intelligence that resides within any given entity? Are you too smart to answer these questions in layman's terms?


802 posted on 01/05/2006 10:11:41 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Fester Chugabrew
I specifically asked how/whether this esoteric math, which supposedly defines intelligence more eloquently than a dictionary, is capable of assessing the type or amount of intelligence needed to, for example, build a car.

And I've repeatedly stated that it is most certainly mathematically possible to assess the amount of intelligence needed to build a car. You merely do not like the answer that the amount of intelligence required to build a car is approximately zero. You keep asking the question and then dancing around the answer.

Or is this math simply an attempt at measuring the intelligence that resides within any given entity?

That you keep trying to make a distinction here betrays your ignorance of mathematics.

Are you too smart to answer these questions in layman's terms?

You are not even understanding the basics, which can be couched in layman's terms with modest effort. Given this, I find it unlikely that you would understand more advanced constructions that are built from and require thorough understanding of the basics.

Hell, I've spent a dozen posts trying to get you to accept that the Invariance Theorem and its consequences are valid, and that is elementary information theory. If you cannot handle the Chapter 1 of undergraduate information theory, you are definitely not ready for post-grad level information theory. There is no requirement that everything in the universe to be understandable by you in two hundred words or less.

811 posted on 01/05/2006 10:56:41 AM PST by tortoise (All these moments lost in time, like tears in the rain.)
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