• ameancow@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I fully agree, it’s an idea ahead of it’s time, but only because our population isn’t ready. We’re too flawed and stupid and emotional and superstitious, and the black pill is we always will be. We have plateaued.

    I say this and get immediately met with “But they said before a century ago, they said our tech and knowledge peaked!”

    And I’m not talking about our tech or our textbooks, I’m saying how much abstraction and complexity the average human can comprehend, and we’re only as fast as our slowest runner. Our inherent language abilities aren’t sufficient even in our smartest populations, we are still completely ruled by emotional reactions, we have brains that write stories to explain feelings and we don’t question that the stories aren’t logical, and then use these conclusions to write policy which corrals us even further.

    We will continue to make more and more amazing tools and machines that surpass us, but we won’t have a higher general level of understanding and cognition than we do now. We don’t have the evolutionary pressures, and in fact our brains are generally shrinking because being smart isn’t necessarily a survival tool in nature.