Ace Dreamer Wrote:But, your point is well taken. Something might be intelligent, but do they have the "social intelligence" to get on with a human society? Part of this is empathy and the ability to (correctly) model the behaviour of other intelligences. Then, there is the matter of being concerned enough about those other intelligences to cooperate with them in cases when you have spare resources left over from what you need to survive.By that definition, pre-SOScon Noah Scott would have trouble passing the test...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012