• @[email protected]
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    601 month ago

    He made us “super intelligent”…

    I’m starting to think that intelligence is not a feature but a glitch.

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      1 month ago

      Of course I can’t prove this, but my personal head-canon is that on some sort of absolute scale (the sort a god would use so don’t ask me to explain it) the difference between the smartest human and dumbest is probably negligible. Our smartest humans look really fucking smart to our dumbest humans only because none of us have met the Xoflorg race from Proxima 5 (arbitrary example), even the dumbest of whom, the absolute morons, understand quantum physics better than Stephen Hawking did.

      (My head-canon also figures there’s some other alien race out there who would think our dumbest people are super-geniuses.)

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      101 month ago

      Hell yeah. Have you seen how happy manatees look when they’re just floating along, eating seagrass, not a care in the world? Makes me think they have the right idea.

      • @dohpaz42
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        91 month ago

        Ignorance is bliss.

    • @Ptsf
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      51 month ago

      // To-Do

      • @SlopppyEngineer
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        41 month ago

        Emotional intelligence is too low, and short term thinking still overrules long term thinking.