Intelligence of the population

It doesn't take a lot of mental capacity or intelligence to figure out all those survival necessities. Once they were figured out they weren't that hard to recreate or innovate.

Of course it will. But you're missing the point. This is what we WANT to happen.

It's been shown that the brains of animals shrink when they're domesticated. This is because there isn't as much need for intelligence.

We want technology to take off some of the burden that staying alive entails. As this happens, we can sit back and just enjoy living, instead of continually stressing all our systems including our minds trying to fight for survival.

This is the ultimate GOAL of technology. The only problem is ensuring it doesn't all fail while no one is left to pay attention...

We're evolving towards single use information hides. We will speciate based on level of access to the control mechanisms of the technology. Tech CEOs and programmers will evolve into one kind of human, and general technology using populace will be segmented and programmed by the technology they're given access to

Yes, no shit. Better nutrition and such reduce the amount of brain damage you get, but they don't actually make you any smarter.

Intelligence, like any other trait, is affected by selection. If being dumb doesn't prevent people from reproducing, and being smart gives no significant advantage, intelligence will drop over time.

>If being dumb doesn't prevent people from reproducing
It prevents you from reproducing with smart people, so we might expect polarization in the future.

t. turbo brainlet

>I truly believe that as technology advances the intelligence of a population will decrease.
So far it's been the opposite. Humans are at their smartest when they grow up well fed and well educated.

>having less brain damage doesn't make you smarter
u wot

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