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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?
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what're the odds it's going down, but the remaining is more noticeable / accessible? [the world is improving but modern news paints the opposite story :: humanity is getting smarter but social media platforms paint the opposite story]
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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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