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I think improvers and tinkerers are performing better, and more people are becoming improvers and tinkerers at the margin. But most people spend most of their time gossipping and feuding (and always have), and we're definitely getting better at that.
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Counter point: Fewer people are getting great at things because current turnover devalues wisdom and metis. Dunning Kruger effect and general mediocrity obfuscate ineptitude.
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At skills, yes. At deeper knowledge of information I would say no. Nicholas Carr's The Shallows is a good book on how the internet makes our knowledge base shallower, and why that's a bad thing.
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