... We're hanging on -- ineffectually -- to the baseline of techno-competence, rather than soaring up and away beyond it. ...
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... Malthusian relaxation tends to submerge the species back into pre-historical stupidity, with nothing but techno-momentum for buoyancy. .
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... The degenerative threat isn't a matter of sliding back, but of sliding right under. Collapsing into pre-historical inertia ...
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... We're already at the lower bound. Intelligence, fundamentally, is something we don't have. We are its negative. ...
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... This isn't a great place for things to go wrong from.
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@Outsideness what's the over/under on when we can reliably have children of 150+ IQ? 20 years? and that's in the scenario of no hard takeoff1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@topynate ... The social processes that would shift the bell-curve right are massively taboo (though Chinese are encouragingly oblivious). .1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@topynate ... Without a positive cultural catastrophe in the West, it's hard to imagine the dysgenic undertow being seriously contested. ...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@topynate ... Super-intelligence as a resource to keep degenerating ape-man in comfort is something I find extraordinarily hard to foresee.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@topynate ... Collectively speaking, we're probably too stupid to live.
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