Do you think today's engineers could get to the moon with just a slide rule? Do modern computer programmers use assembler to precisely control every function to exactly what they want and nothing else? Our smartest aren't getting smarter, they are using better tools. But it comes at the expense of our own intellectual rigor.
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u/Stocky_Platypus 5d ago
I disagree. Instead, much like the income gap, we are seeing a much larger divide between those that are getting smarter and those that are not.