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Dumb is more the inability to make expedient, salient, and useful decisions either from the lack of knowledge or the fundamental incapability to process the available knowledge.

Dumb is accidental or genetic.

AI won't affect how dumb we are.

I think they will decrease the utility of crystalline knowledge skills and increase our fluid knowledge skills. Smart people will still find ways to thrive in the environment.

Human intelligence will continue moving forward.



it made doctors worse at diagnosing cancer and diagnosing is very much "mak[ing] expedient, salient, and useful decisions"


Fortunately we also have your reply to exemplify how supposedly smart people can miss the point and make absurd mistakes even without AI to help them.




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