{"id":22793,"date":"2026-10-08T00:36:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T00:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=22793"},"modified":"2026-10-08T00:36:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T00:36:57","slug":"op-ed-superintelligence-is-losing-to-human-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=22793","title":{"rendered":"Op-Ed: Superintelligence is losing to human stupidity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just when you think <strong>AI-related things can\u2019t get any stupider,<\/strong> human stupidity makes AI look intelligent. As humanity basks in the warm glow of an unquestioned all-pervasive parasitic criminal culture, moronic world-hating billionaires, and absurd hyper babble, good old Homo Sap trumps them all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This AI-dependent form of stupidity is now so common it\u2019s effectively folklore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Consider <strong>the college AI essay debate<\/strong>. \u201cWhen in doubt, cheat\u201d is the anthem of the loser, but there\u2019s more to it than that. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The stupidity isn\u2019t just the idiotic obvious cheating.<\/strong> It is obvious. Put your essay instructions into a chatbot, and they\u2019ll all generate pretty much the same output. Sometimes they even make the same syntax and grammar mistakes. AI writing is usually unmistakable, particularly on the same subject.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The stupidity isn\u2019t the AI, either.<\/strong> AI can only do what an LLM enables it to do. It can\u2019t originate. It can\u2019t extrapolate. It can\u2019t come up with new perspectives or any sort of personal insight. It can recite <em>Baa, Baa Black Sheep<\/em> and have no idea what it means, let alone why it might be relevant in a conversation about human stupidity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s the fact that none of these students could possibly survive a real test that defines the human stupidity. If you don\u2019t know enough to do a single essay, how can you do a whole college degree?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now consider the cost of a college degree. You\u2019re spending that kind of money to guarantee failure? You\u2019re going to do an internship or a job in a qualified position with the knowledge base of a house brick? Sure, you are. To put it another way, no, you\u2019re not.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-the-human-perception-of-ai-is-the-real-problem\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The human perception of AI is the real problem<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Imagine being sold a car. You\u2019re told that one day you may be able to get in the car and go somewhere. There are no roads and no road rules. There\u2019s no insurance for third parties. Nobody\u2019s too sure what to do if there\u2019s an accident and someone gets hurt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You hook up your AI, and it goes \u201cVroom, vroom\u201d like one of those incredibly dumb kids you knew was a bore at the age of 3. The dumb kids are happy with the noise. They use the AI for everything they were already doing and at least knew how to do. Now they\u2019re dependent on using something they barely understand to \u201cearn\u201d a living.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AI has been mythologized to the point of mass delusion. The real value of AI is misrepresented every second. The common educational and workplace uses of AI are very much like hiring Einstein to dig ditches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Experts know that all too well. The public image of AI is that it\u2019s some sort of magic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cChatbot culture\u201d is making the perception harder to manage. The sheer naivete of this culture is almost unbelievable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Of course your deepest personal issues can be solved by a non-existent person.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Of course there\u2019ll be nothing wrong with whatever the AI produces.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Of course you can blame the AI for whatever disasters you cause.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Of course nobody cares if huge amounts of money are lost in a \u201cprocedural error\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are you dumb enough yet?<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-the-golden-age-of-stupidity-has-solid-human-ancestry\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The \u201cGolden Age of Stupidity\u201d has solid human ancestry<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The expression \u201cGolden Age of Stupidity\u201d<\/strong> was coined by Sophie McBain in a <em>Guardian<\/em> article in October 2025. Nobody\u2019s arguing with the description. The linked article explains a lot about human cognition and the effect of AI on cognition when using it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the studies involved MIT students who couldn\u2019t even quote their own work. You\u2019ll note that in this case the work was accepted on face value for submission, but no effort went into comprehension or even remembering it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a precedent for this level of stupidity. Let\u2019s spell this out so the ultra-macho intellectual superbeings whose mental stamina can barely survive a 10 minute YouTube video understand it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So understand this, geniuses:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US literacy rates are abysmal. <strong>About 54% of US adults read below a sixth-grade level<\/strong> in 2026. How well are these severely handicapped people going to manage any sort of interaction with AI LLMs?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An incompetent society produces incompetence. \u00a0It also produces massive socioeconomic failure. According to Gemini, <em>\u201c<\/em><em>The broader economic drain caused by low functional literacy levels is estimated to cost the U.S. economy up to <strong>$2.2 trillion annually<\/strong>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The social acceptance of stupidity has been a hallmark of US culture since the 1950s. It\u2019s also a matter of perception. The dumb guy who gets you all killed is funny. The Valley Girl is, well, a \u201cgirl\u201d, whatever that is. Watching media marketed at fruit fly brain level is normal. All these wonders were achieved without AI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not much has happened since, until AI. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The disease has spread. Tolerance of idiots simply produced more idiots. A nerd is now someone who can figure out how to eat a hamburger without a chaperone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s been such fun. Better still, the risk of anything ever appearing on a screen that\u2019s not aimed at infantile morons has been averted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But there\u2019s hope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you have time, check out this thing, \u201c<strong>60 Hilarious AI Responses That Left People Wondering How It Got Things So Wrong\u201d<\/strong>. You\u2019ll notice that compared to humanity\u2019s 5000 years of recorded stupidity, it\u2019s not even in the ballpark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Human stupidity will inevitably triumph over AI. When the last human idiot makes their last stand in the last palatial dingy cubicle and they-there word things comes a-lookin\u2019 for it, a-droolin\u2019 and a-conjugatin\u2019, the human will say, \u201cDuhhh,\u201d and the AI will never understand.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \u603b\u5bb9\u5668\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u5bbd908px Grid\u7d27\u51d1\u5e03\u5c40 -->\r\n<div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 728px 160px; gap:2px; width:908px; background:#eee; padding:2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u901a\u680f\u9876\u90e8\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u6a2a\u5e45 908x258 \u8de8\u6574\u884c -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column:1\/-1; height:258px; background:#ff6b6b; display:grid; place-items:center;\">\r\n    <!-- JuicyAds v3.0 -->\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" async src=\"https:\/\/poweredby.jads.co\/js\/jads.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins id=\"1114307\" data-width=\"908\" data-height=\"258\"><\/ins>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" async>(adsbyjuicy = window.adsbyjuicy || []).push({'adzone':1114307});<\/script>\r\n<!--JuicyAds END-->\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u7b2c\u4e8c\u901a\u680f\uff1a728\u00d790 \u901a\u680f -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column:1\/-1; 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