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Do you ever feel like you are surrounded by people who can’t follow basic instructions, use simple intuition, reason, or even think beyond the next few minutes?
Well you might not be imagining things, there has been a marked rise in cognitive difficulties over just the last decade.
If you HAVEN’T noticed this decline, well I might have some bad news for you.
The rate of young people reporting trouble learning new things, concentrating or just thinking has almost DOUBLED in the past 20 years.
But it really shouldn’t be like this… for the last 200 years Humans on average have been getting consistently smarter with every passing generation.
Around the world we have more access to information than ever before, better nutrition, and we are now spending more on education than at any point in history… but that could only get us so far.
Whether you want to blame it on brainrot shortform content, AI that does the thinking for us, the defunding of public education, symptoms of long covid or the fact that nobody can get a decent night of sleep anymore… the data is all saying the same thing…
We might have already passed peak intelligence, and we are now getting progressively stoopider…