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by brador 2 days ago
84.1% of people have <115 IQ. The minimum required to critically think about the modern world and affect its function.

With AI that minimum is expected to increase.
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b3lvedere 2 days ago
The immense amount of CO2 isn't also doing wonders on our brains.
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brador 1 day ago
Lead and cadmium in food caused by cheap fuel and roads closer to farms is also negatively affecting population IQ.

Then there’s the internet.

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b3lvedere 1 day ago
"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." [1]

[1]: https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/wilensky.ht...

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