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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 month ago (3 children)

He made us "super intelligent"...

I'm starting to think that intelligence is not a feature but a glitch.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Of course I can't prove this, but my personal head-canon is that on some sort of absolute scale (the sort a god would use so don't ask me to explain it) the difference between the smartest human and dumbest is probably negligible. Our smartest humans look really fucking smart to our dumbest humans only because none of us have met the Xoflorg race from Proxima 5 (arbitrary example), even the dumbest of whom, the absolute morons, understand quantum physics better than Stephen Hawking did.

(My head-canon also figures there's some other alien race out there who would think our dumbest people are super-geniuses.)

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago

This reminds me of the plot of a Futurama episode where Leonardo da Vinci goes back to his home planet where he is a renowned moron.

[–] Orbituary 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

(My head-canon also figures there’s some other alien race out there who would think our dumbest people are super-geniuses.)

They're called Floridians

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They’re called Floridians

Too good for just an upvote, have some Lemmy Gold.

[–] tetris11 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is that a baby rat with a bird tail, perched on a branch?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Unlikely. Human intelligence is literally a freak development and needed some workarounds like early birth. More processing power needs more energy, which you have to supply somehow.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hell yeah. Have you seen how happy manatees look when they're just floating along, eating seagrass, not a care in the world? Makes me think they have the right idea.

[–] dohpaz42 9 points 1 month ago

Ignorance is bliss.

[–] Ptsf 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] SlopppyEngineer 4 points 1 month ago

Emotional intelligence is too low, and short term thinking still overrules long term thinking.

[–] lowleveldata 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think many of our problems is caused by our physical weakness

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Well, not anymore, ye

[–] berryjam 1 points 1 month ago

Something something perfectly good monkey something something anxiety