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by cess11 8 days ago
Right, and you seemed to imply that smartness can be measured in how many live copies of one's genes one manages to produce.
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laughing_man 8 days ago
Sort of. The idea that we're somehow smarter today is nonsense on stilts.
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trumpdong 7 days ago
Smartest was 10-15 years ago. Flynn effect reversed.
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em-bee 7 days ago
we are not smarter, but we have access to more knowledge
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laughing_man 7 days ago
I wonder about that. How much of the knowledge we're exposed to is actually true?
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