But huge masses of people? They begin to adopt emergent traits that cancel out individual intelligence. It's why foot traffic can be modelled as a liquid. Or why the entire field of economics can exist.

This makes large public masses have predictable behavior that's exploitable by grifters, demagogues, and propaganda.

[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I've come to realize that the upper limit of human intelligence is both surprisingly smart, and depressingly stupid. I'm lucky enough to be smarter, but also smart enough to know I'm an absolute idiot. I'm not even that smart in an IQ sense, just lucky in my experience, education, and focus. I'm smart in a particular way, but I'm not quick or even capable of many basic tasks.

I don't enjoy people seeing me as smart, because they then expect things I don't feel capable of. I don't want that pressure! I'm not that much smarter than you 😫

[–] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Where do I sign up for my "doesn't believe Kamala Harris can control the path of hurricanes with a weather machine" award?

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that fewer people than you have been led to believe actually believe that. You don't get an award for being smarter than a strawman.