This Earth, the only true home i ever had and will ever have, is not my world, i’m just a passerby in here … it is yours and it is strange.

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  • A_AtoNewsHuman Intelligence Sharply Declining
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    5 hours ago

    Such a nightmare… i suppose we can describe this as :
    (hypothesis #1) : Stupidity increasing up to a breaking point where it’s no longer sustainable and kids start to die again.
    (h #2) : this increase in stupidity is not necessarily genetic … it can be from other (social …) causes.
    (h #3) : selection pressure can also act on social behaviors.

    Disclaimer : i’m not working in this field : this has no scientific value.




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    6 hours ago

    Up to this point, i have read most comments inside this post and race or racism was nowhere mention. Yet there have been studies to measure its influence on intelligence … humm … is that a topic that you wish to develop here ? Why ? Do you believe it is useful ? Or do you agree with me that it is a waste of our time ?



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    12 hours ago

    Yes, i agree, and many other lemmy users said similar things about : “why it does apply recently” …
    Yet, it’s more interesting to look at why in the past centuries or millennias there was quite a strong selection pressure favoring intelligence.
    During those past times, life for humans was much more competitive, so that any major deficiencies, including in intelligence, physical strength, mental strength or whatever important survival characteristics, meant death.
    Similarly, in any living species, would it be plants, animal or other, if you remove survival pressures, you rapidly, in just a few generations, diverge into completely different life forms.
    Since selection pressures have drastically decreased in many rich countries, for maybe 50 to 100 years now, their populations are on this unsustainable path (in my educated opinion).
    Comments from other users were close to what i am saying here, but never so bluntly.

    P.S. : @[email protected] this comment is of the type for which i would expect to be, as you said : “regularly get called out on”.






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    2 days ago

    That was already discussed in this post :
    https://lemmy.world/post/26948801/15738537

    copy pasted what i wrote :

    Present day atmosphere is about 400 or 450 PPM compare this to :

    CO2 poisoning (Hypercapnia) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercapnia

    → Physiological effects :
    A high arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide ( Pa CO2 ) causes changes in brain activity that adversely affect both fine muscular control and reasoning. EEG changes denoting minor narcotic effects can be detected for expired gas end tidal partial pressure of carbon dioxide (…) increase from ((53,000 PPM)) to approximately (…) (66,000 PPM = 0.066 atm). The diver does not necessarily notice these effects.







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    3 days ago

    Since humans have made many horrendous things we will easily agree on some things we would want to change in humanity. Yet, at some point, it’s difficult to define exactly what would be better … what would be more “productive” as you wrote.



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    3 days ago

    Yes it is possible … but this factor is difficult to measure, as it may go both ways, depending on motivation to learn new things and if that AI is a good teacher or … is giving ready-made (and bad) answers without helping to go further.