The Random Question Thread

[Stoked]

Is it just me or are people getting less intelligent (see: common sense) at an exponentially faster rate?

 

[The Midnight]

Is it just me or are people getting less intelligent (see: common sense) at an exponentially faster rate?

You mean, like, generally? Or, like, on JazzFanz in particular?

 

[Jazz Spazz]

Is it just me or are people getting less intelligent (see: common sense) at an exponentially faster rate?

I'm not around you a whole lot, but I don't think you are getting less intelligent at an exponentially faster rate.

Seriously though, yes.

I heard recently from an associate that one of their kids saw a facebook post about putting your ipod in the microwave to charge it and it worked.
This child put theirs in the microwave to do it, but it didn't work. It just broke the ipod.
lol

I would think common sense would have kicked in somewhere, right?

 

[LogGrad98]

Common sense is a fallacy.

 

[PearlWatson]

Is it just me or are people getting less intelligent (see: common sense) at an exponentially faster rate?

genome decay:

Mutations are not uniquely biological events that provide an engine of natural variation for natural selection to work upon and produce all the variety of life. Mutation is the purely physical result of the all-pervading mechanical damage that accompanies all molecular machinery. As a consequence, all multicellular life on earth is undergoing inexorable genome decay because the deleterious mutation rates are so high, the effects of the individual mutations are so small, there are no compensatory beneficial mutations and natural selection is ineffective in removing the damage.

So much damage occurs that it is clearly evident within a single human lifetime. Our reproductive cells are not immune, as previously thought, but are just as prone to mechanical damage as our body cells. Somewhere between a few thousand and a few million mutations are enough to drive a human lineage to extinction, and this is likely to occur over a time scale of only tens to hundreds of thousands of years. This is far short of the supposed evolutionary time scales. Like rust eating away the steel in a bridge, mutations are eating away our genomes and there is nothing we can do to stop them.

Evolution’s engine, when properly understood, becomes evolution’s end.

~Alexander Williams, B.Sc., M.Sc.(Hons), Th.C., Dip.C.S., ThL.

 

[PearlWatson]

I'm not around you a whole lot, but I don't think you are getting less intelligent at an exponentially faster rate.

Seriously though, yes.

I heard recently from an associate that one of their kids saw a facebook post about putting your ipod in the microwave to charge it and it worked.
This child put theirs in the microwave to do it, but it didn't work. It just broke the ipod.
lol

I would think common sense would have kicked in somewhere, right?

Does any child have "common sense?"
This seems like more of a lack of experience, and parental neglect.

 

[VINYLONE]

Is it just me or are people getting less intelligent (see: common sense) at an exponentially faster rate?

I think every generation thinks that...

 

[LogGrad98]

I think every generation thinks that...

So does that prove or disprove it?

 

[VINYLONE]

So does that prove or disprove it?

Great question. Perfect thread for it.

 

[LogGrad98]

Great question. Perfect thread for it.

Why?

 

[bigb]

Why?

Huh?

 

[moevillini]

If you were traveling at the speed of sound, could you hear yourself think?

Will your words catch up to you?

Could they come back to bite you?