No, it's not just you — people really are, per a number of surveys, way less intelligent than they used to be.

I wonder if you could analyze internet discussions for an effect.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    97·
    1 day ago

    There’s also no real proof that high intelligence is actually a productive evolutionary trait.

    We’re juuuuuuuuust smart enough to grow like a cancerous parasite and are getting close to killing our sickly host organism.

    • Match!!English
      3·
      15 hours ago

      i’m optimistic enough to believe we’ll be like

      feigenbaum graph of rabbit population where it fluctuates between two numbers, then four numbers, then a fuckload of random numbers

    • A_A@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 day 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.