IQ in Slow Motion
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Why did it take humanity 200,000 years to exhibit modern behavior? My guess is that our cognitive capacity has been steadily increasing at the rate of ~1 IQ point/2500 years.
If this is true then each increment would have steadily unlocked new complex ideas from fire to tools to… https://x.com/amasad/status/1741294479410393185