In the last couple of years I have noticed a few mentions of something that was at the heart of the theme for my near-future dystopia The Autist: decoupling consciousness from intelligence. One of the mentions was in Yuval Noah Harari’s book 21 Lessons For The 21st Century.
Why should we be worried about this decoupling? Modern human beings 100,000 years…
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