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84.1% of people have <115 IQ. The minimum required to critically think about the modern world and affect its function.

With AI that minimum is expected to increase.

The immense amount of CO2 isn't also doing wonders on our brains.

Lead and cadmium in food caused by cheap fuel and roads closer to farms is also negatively affecting population IQ.

Then there’s the internet.

"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." [1]

[1]: https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/wilensky.ht...

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