Intelligence is not the first thing human science has encountered that proved difficult to understand.
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Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Intelligence is not the first thing human science has encountered that proved difficult to understand.” (said 2008). Verdict: not researched. Reliability API, claim c_a8f5cbb724ce, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_a8f5cbb724ce
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