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Lift Heavy Thoughts
You’ve probably heard by now that we’re all getting dumber.
Our ability to focus is slipping away. We hear in the news that the IQ of young people today is, for the first time on record, lower than their parents’ IQ. AI is waiting with open arms to offload all of your boring, laborious thoughts, like AUTO, the destruction-bent autopilot in WALL-E.
Our phones are sucking away our life force like the Petrova Line sucks away the heat of the sun.
Our decline has been documented, and discussed, and explained. The end of humanity is near.
But is all this actually true? When abstracted to the level of the population, much of the warnings have high probability windows. But that only tells part of the story.