1) Even the obvious claims (and often especially these) deserve scientific verification.
2) Most people are dumb is not because they are missing the relevant information, but because they are failing to act upon the information.
3) The real magic is understanding and being able to predict higher-order effects. And then taking action which steers everyone towards a more desirable outcome.
People will keep eating junk food and writing essays with AI despite knowing that this will lead to unhealthy bodies and minds. Does this make them stupid? Yes it does. Knowledge is the ability to apply information and conversely stupidity is the inability to do so. Most people are indeed stupid and the only way to fix this is to change the system they are part of so they are no longer incentivized to make the stupid choices.
1) Even the obvious claims (and often especially these) deserve scientific verification.
2) Most people are dumb is not because they are missing the relevant information, but because they are failing to act upon the information.
3) The real magic is understanding and being able to predict higher-order effects. And then taking action which steers everyone towards a more desirable outcome.
People will keep eating junk food and writing essays with AI despite knowing that this will lead to unhealthy bodies and minds. Does this make them stupid? Yes it does. Knowledge is the ability to apply information and conversely stupidity is the inability to do so. Most people are indeed stupid and the only way to fix this is to change the system they are part of so they are no longer incentivized to make the stupid choices.