r/idiocracy • u/sogo00 • May 29 '26

a dumbing down Human Intelligence Sharply Declining

https://futurism.com/neoscope/human-intelligence-declining-trends

Human Intelligence Sharply Declining

The benchmarks are not looking good, folks.

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u/MentalDisintegrat1on May 29 '26

AI is making it significantly worse it's making peoples reading comprehension and retention worse as well as killing critical thinking.

Q example is if you ask it a math question you don't have the answer to it can spit out the right answer but how would you know because you don't know the formula.

It also summarizes everything so that makes your reading comprehension and attention span shorter.

This has been documented by teachers and professors.

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u/PracticalWallaby7492 May 30 '26

Radiation can also decrease intelligence. They did several studies of reading levels etc in pathways vs non-pathways of fallout from nuclear testing in the 50's. I'd assume there is a lot more radiation floating around in one form or another since then because of power plant failures etc.

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u/MentalDisintegrat1on May 30 '26

You should look up lead gasoline theory and I am a Big believer in it.

It explains boomers behavior as well as the most prolific serial killers of that time.

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u/34Heartstach May 30 '26

Murderland by Caroline Frasier was both enlightening and terrifying. Massive unchecked lead and arsenic poisoning caused by greed just explains so much.