Comment by roenxi

> I don't know what to say, if these are the intellectual references of our brightest minds, makes me terrified that they're all children mentally.

It is part of the fear - human intelligence is extremely limited. That could easily be representative (although to be fair, probably not).

Reasoning about the future is really hard and usually everyone who makes predictions is wrong. So far we've been fine through pretty much every challenge. That being said, "we'll survive this" is a statement that is only false once and this one looks pretty serious. We might be dealing with a world where human intelligence is economically uncompetitive for the first time in recorded history.