From brain-rotting videos to AI creep, every technological advance seems to make it harder to work, remember, think and function independently …
    • deranger@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Nope, humans have always been stupid. People said the same shit when the printing press was invented, or TV, or whatever.

      Seriously, crack a history book. Modern times are actually pretty good, even with all the bullshit.

      • 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        8 days ago

        Humans have always been stupid but today technology has made it easier for the dumbest among us to be more influential than any stupid person of any prior era. This, we are in the golden age of stupidity.

        • deranger@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          6 days ago

          You could say the exact same thing about the smartest people being able to spread their message, and the two effects cancel out.

          Same age as any other, more or less. These are human problems that won’t be fixed until we’re no longer human.