This paper will examine what makes a being intelligent, whether that be a biological being or an artificial silicon being on a computer. Special attention will be paid to the being having the ability to characterize and control a collective system of many identical conservative sub-systems conservatively interacting. The essence of intelligence will be found to be the golden rule -- "the collective acts as one" or "knowing the global consequences of local actions". The flow of the collective is a small set of twinkling textures, that are governed by a puppeteer who is pulling a small number of strings according to a geodesic motion of least action, determined by the symmetries. Controlling collective conservative systems is difficult and has historically been done by adding significant viscosity to the system to stabilize the desirable meta stable equilibriums of maximum performance, but it degrades or destroys them in the process. There is an alternative. Once the optimum twinkling textures of the meta stable equilibriums are identified by the intelligent being (that is the collective system is characterized), the collective system can be moved by the intelligent being to the optimum twinkling textures, then quickly vibrated by the intelligent being according to the textures so that the collective system remains at the meta stable equilibrium. Well educated intelligence knows the global consequences of its local actions so that it will not take short term actions that will lead to poor long term outcomes. In contrast, trained intelligence or trained stupidity will optimize its short term actions, leading to poor long term outcomes. Well educated intelligence is inherently good, but trained stupidity is inherently evil and should be feared. Particular attention is paid to the control and optimization of economic and social collectives.

翻译：本文旨在探讨何种特质构成了智能，无论该智能存在于生物体还是计算机中的硅基人造体。特别关注的是智能体具备对由多个相同保守子系统组成的集体系统进行表征与控制的能力——这些子系统之间以保守方式进行相互作用。智能的本质将被发现是黄金法则——“集体宛如一体运作”或“知晓局部行动带来的全局后果”。集体的流动表现为一组微小的闪烁纹理，这些纹理由一位幕后操控者根据最小作用量测地线运动拉动少量丝线所决定，其运动由对称性所支配。控制集体保守系统极具挑战性，历史上通常通过向系统添加大量粘性以稳定期望的亚稳平衡态（即性能最大化状态）来实现，但此举在过程中会劣化甚至摧毁这些状态。然而存在一种替代方案：一旦智能体识别出亚稳平衡态的最优闪烁纹理（即完成对集体系统的表征），该智能体即可将集体系统引导至最优闪烁纹理，随后根据纹理特征对系统进行快速振动，从而使集体系统持续稳定在亚稳平衡态。受良好教育的智慧知晓其局部行动所带来的全局后果，因此不会采取导致长期不良后果的短期行为。相比之下，被训练出的智能或训练出的愚蠢则倾向于优化短期行动，最终引发长期负面结果。受良好教育的智慧本质上是善良的，而训练出的愚蠢则本质上是邪恶的，应当警惕。本文特别关注经济与社会集体系统的控制与优化问题。