Asklemmy

No I don't see why people would want to become more intellectual. What's the payoff for the effort?

People are lazy, at least the majority are. Then you have the personality types that needs to compete, and they are very useful in positions where you work hard all day to get a pat on the back. But they are more rare. Most of us don't see a reason to be intellectual or to compete, even if we have the capacity.

Because there is nothing that matters anyway. If we were living in a star trek society where we all contribute to a common good and gain respect from the community for it, then we would be motivated. But this is the stone age... Raw capitalism. History books will be written about this age and how pointless it all was.

I'm fine with people who really just don't know stuff. But they should really listen when you try to explain something to them.

* cough cough * flat earthers?

People will remain stupid. But I'm somewhat hopeful that in the next few decades we see AI develop enough that it truly constitutes superintelligence relative to us, and that the scalability of it tips the scales of the continual standoff between intelligence and stupidity forever.

Because I have little hope for humanity overcoming its own multiplying stupidity on its own.

I think the claim that the world is anti-intellectual is somewhat biased. I don't know if that's a sampling bias, a cognitive bias, or some other kind of bias. But one way or another, I feel like you're overblowing things.