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Why not count the fact that humans created a tool to help themselves at unminifying towards human score?

Having a computer multiplying 1000-digit numbers instantly is an example of humans succeeding at multiplying: by creating a tool for that first. Because what else is intellectually succeeding there? It’s not like the computer has created itself.

If one draws a boundary of human intelligence at the skull bone and does not count the tools that this very intelligence is creating and using as mere steps of problem solving process, then one will also have to accept that humans are not intelligent enough to fly into space or do surgery or even cook most of the meals.




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