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Ask HN: Will AI make humans smarter through evolutionary selection pressure?
2 points by amichail 3 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments
In particular, AI might increase human intelligence if those who still have jobs are more likely to find a mate and have children.




Might be the jobs are all non-intellectual and there is the opposite effect.

I think you don't understand that biological evolution happens over very long spans of time. Humans short-circuited a lot of evolutionary pressures already and introduced some new pressures.

I think you also overestimate the effects of AI. Did writing or public education make humans "smarter?"

Equating having a job with intelligence seems quite a stretch.


Maybe - if you're willing to endure the dystopian nightmare of letting the less fortunate suffer and die. And if you are willing to let the less fortunate suffer and die, then I guarantee there's someone above your paygrade who thinks the same as you and will gladly watch you suffer and die.



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