If you have false beliefs as the basis for your computation you just get wrong results faster.
What people mean by intelligent person is often someone who:
- has more computing power
- spends their time using that computing power
- checks their assumptions and biases regularly
- over time accumulates more correct beliefs than others
If you get lots of computing power but don't do the other things - you get a dumber person than average. Because they accumulate more wrong results than everybody else.
This is how you get tech bros - great at math and programming, dumb as a shoe about everything else.
If you have false beliefs as the basis for your computation you just get wrong results faster.
What people mean by intelligent person is often someone who: - has more computing power - spends their time using that computing power - checks their assumptions and biases regularly - over time accumulates more correct beliefs than others
If you get lots of computing power but don't do the other things - you get a dumber person than average. Because they accumulate more wrong results than everybody else.
This is how you get tech bros - great at math and programming, dumb as a shoe about everything else.