I think I have some sort of subconscious belief that humans have been getting smarter throughout history - better at recognizing abstract patterns in general and holding more complicated strategies in their head. Is this a real thing?
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I mean like recognizable improvements over the course of recorded history - as in, given the same knowledge and tools, a good leader today would do better than a good leader in ancient Persia or something.
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I don't think so.
Ancient armies and civilizations were very clever with the technologies they had to work with.
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It's actually something I've been thinking about recently too. I've been trying to shake that bias though, because like, the people who built the pyramids weren't idiots, y'know?
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in some aspects yes, but in other aspects, especially deep vibrations/low frequencies, we’re becoming desensitized/losing something. losing the big picture
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The Flynn effect: a rapid increase in IQ through most of the 20th century. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_eff IQ tests are periodically renormed because of it.
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Yes it is real Aella , I first noticed this years ago when people were able to better differentiate between rabbit 🐇 pellets and Coco Puffs 🤷♂️
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We have records of Go games played more than a thousand years ago (earliest recorded game from around 250 AD) and the players were pretty great. So there's a counterargument to the generalization of the Flynn effect there.
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