I don't think he should stop, because I think he's right. We lack a definition of intelligence that doesn't do a lot of hand waving.
You linked to a paper with 18 collective definitions, 35 psychologist definitions, and 18 ai researcher definitions of intelligence. And the conclusion of the paper was that they came up with their own definition of intelligence. That is not a definition in my book.
> second a definition is obviously not a prerequisite as evidenced by natural selection
right, we just need a universe, several billions of years and sprinkle some evolution and we'll also get intelligence, maybe.
Since you provided a source for your numbers, I'll bite. Formalize results into mechanical proofs that can be verified by computers so that we build a library of computer proofs. You can't bullshit a computer.
I'm not sure how it would work for statistical results, but defining a formalized standard might be a good first step for deriving numbers from raw data instead of relying on the authors to calculate the statistics themselves.
Not that I disagree with your numbers, but do you have any sources for your numbers of paper mills doubling output every 1.5 years vs real research doubling every 15 years?
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