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~zampano

I've definitely been a fan for a long time, although I don't pretend to any literary insight necessarily.

it's happening now

Sort of, although as I wrote, I'm not sure it's happening in the ways we would like.

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~brewed wrote (thread):

“Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.” The idea is that, over time, increasingly powerful technology will be in the hands of everyday people. It’s kind of like the cliché about how we all walk around with smartphones that are orders of magnitude more powerful and capable than the computers used to send people to the Moon.

It's mind-blowing when we think about it. As much as technology progresses, humans stay human, for better or worse. It's like our capabilities as individual grow exponentially until they don't anymore.