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jdiiufccuskal 1d ago

Are We Idiocracy Yet?

https://idiocracy.wtf/

Are We Idiocracy Yet?

Tracking how close reality is to Mike Judge's Idiocracy. It's got electrolytes.

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netcan 1d ago

Idiocracy hit a lot of superficial/thematic nails on the head with its silliness.

"Don't Look Up" captures a lot more of the actual dynamics. Instead of anti-eugenics making brains feeble, the people are just normal humans made stupid by their cultural environment, incentives and suchlike.

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davemp 1d ago

I always have a problem when folks bring up idiocracy because the of the eugenics angle. It’s extremely unlikely that people are getting inherently stupider, just less educated. The former is some sort of prophecy of doom and the latter is actually actionable.

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servo_sausage

This to me is one of the most apparent failures of modern taboo infecting people's ability to communicate, or even reason.

Eugenics is not ethical, for a variety of very good reasons; that does not mean that it's unscientific.

We know that intelligence is heritable; we have observed epigenetic group trends like the Flynn effect to the point where they plateau...

The biggest unknown in my opinion is how stable the gains we have made are. If we have our education systems disrupted, or some nutrition crunch, does the population average drop to the point where the complex systems we depend on are not maintained?