[diverteach]

With more information than ever before at an instant disposal through smartphones, why is it people are becoming dumber and dumber?
I fear A.I. will only exacerbate that trend as computers are allowed to do more of the thinking.

[RoosterRedux]

I don't think it's a lack of brain power that makes some people seem "dumb" lately. I suggest the problem is a lack of curiosity, negative attitudes toward growth, fear of new things, and general laziness.

We can all see this in the people in our lives. People who don't want to grow, who are unwilling to leave their comfort zones, and people who have negative attitudes about learning don't just stand still, they devolve.

[NorthMountain]

With more information than ever before at an instant disposal through smartphones, why is it people are becoming dumber and dumber?

1) Much of the "information" is false.

2) It's at instant disposal, therefore

3) People don't actually have to learn it, they can "look it up" with the corollary that

4) they don't bother to think about it either. They just regurgitate what they "looked up".

There has been for years now a trend amongst instructors in the Government-Educational Complex to condemn "rote memorization". We used to call that "learning". Their efforts have produced a significant number of people who are very thoroughly misinformed, and utterly unlearned.

[armourenthusiast]

I fear AI lying to you and you have no way to verify.