All this obsession with human and machine intelligence is just displaced anxiety over what we’re in denial about — stupidity is growing faster than intelligence. If you think stupidity must go down as intelligence goes up, guess what you are?
that argument is strong for things like infant mortality and infectious disease, but shaky for anything to do with psychology where perceptions of X feed back into X itself
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pre-internet stupidity didn't have a voice [gate keepers, etc] now everyone has a voice -- surely that creates a perception issue (even if stupidity were held constant, we should expect to see the intelligence of the average / median voice drop]
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so I guess, to your point, the question is: does giving a voice to those people reflexively make the rest of us stupider?
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