Comment by threethirtytwo

Technology changes much quicker. The physical substrate of what a computer does and what artificial intelligence is.. is going through constant metamorphosis. Right now we use EUV technology to etch transistors on silicon… the next generation involves self assembly and even photonic based signalling… all within your life time.

Not to mention the algorithmic structure of computer intelligence also fundamentally changes at a rapid pace. Deep learning and new techniques continually augment and change the software stack on a daily basis.

For humans nothing is changing. The physical substrate changes via evolution and that change happens per generation via random mutations and is basically imperceptible in several human life times. Any meaningful change likely only becomes actualized over tens of thousands of years and even that change is small.

Additionally, the changes via natural selection don’t optimize for greater intelligence it optimizes for survival which can in actuality favor lower intelligence. We don’t actually know if that is the case but we do know it’s a possibility which is in sharp contrast to AI where clearly the industry is optimizing improvement based off of benchmarks for measuring raw intelligence.

Additionally software in humans is random and uncontrolled. It depends on how a child is raised and none of this is really changing to optimize for greater intelligence. It’s just random based on culture and circumstance. There is cultural evolution here but it is slow and technology is changing so fast it is influencing culture much faster than ever before. TikTok Brain rot for example is affecting the software of human brains and this happened within the last decade.

So draw the trendline… what does that mean for humanity? When I called those people idiots, I am not contradicting anything. Human intelligence is NOT scaling at the rate of machine intelligence and the trendlines point to a future where humans are idiots when compared to their AI counterparts. The cold hard truth of the future role of humanity according to the moving trendlines we see today is bleak but it is the most likely future.

Rationality should be applied universally even when that rationality points to a negative outcome for humanity. This is something many people, including you, are unable to do. Face reality.