alt Hacker NewsThere's a saying that the intelligence of an average prehistoric cave man should be, in general, higher than a modern day human simply because the lack of technology required stone age humans to be far more intelligent then we are today. Now you can survive by working as a clerk in McDs, but in the stone age you needed to be on your toes and smart af.
LLMs are just continuing the trend humanity has long been traveling down.
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"Flynn effect" claimed that intelligence has been increasing over time. At least we can sort of measure things in the modern era, while objectively assessing the intelligence of the long-dead is turning into skull-measuring territory.
How do you know that? What do you know about prehistory? Nothing. You might as well be picturing the Flintstones in your head.
You're using broadly shared but totally unsubstantiated about past humans just to argue that things are good right now.
> Now you can survive by working as a clerk in McDs, but in the stone age you needed to be on your toes and smart af.
In stone age, you had to focus on other things than thinking to have enough food for the next day. And to survive otherwise.