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#40 — Complexity & Stupidity

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Importance of Working Memory and Ar

Psychologists have come to call g iis general intelligence, and that this is somehow not necessarily predicated upon acquiring new information. I would dispute thitses you think the concept of i c is just useless in occupi, but people more or less. And a lot of recent research is required to understand why. Let's takeg and the ic in general. We now know that what it really seems to be measuring is working memory and ar. Many working memory tasks are correlated, and they live on this low dimensional space that we call g and ar.

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