millenials will be/are the peak IQ generation zoomers are ipad kids, lobotomized gen alpha will be largely incapable of learning anything due to AI empirical data ("flynn effect") supports this. peak cohort in developed world was late 90s/early 00s (cohort born '85-'95)
Geoffrey Miller
Geoffrey Miller22.7. klo 07.00
This is the central problem with higher education in the age of AI. We can't require students to do take-home writing assignments (e.g. term papers) any more, because most will cheat and have ChatGPT or Claude or Grok do the writing. But we can't teach critical thinking, rationality, perseverance, & scholarship without requiring writing assignments that they work on -- researching, drafting, editing, revising, polishing -- over a period of days or weeks. The result may be a whole generation of students who can't really write, or think, or articulate what they really believe and value, and why.
IQ marched upwards throughout history, plateaued with our cohort (30-40 yos), and will collapse thereafter, unless you count the combined IQ of a human/AI hybrid with a brain/computer interface. but we were the peak biological human generation.
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