{"id":109024,"date":"2020-06-23T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/why-arent-people-smarter-the-dubious-benefits-of-intelligence-real-or-artificial"},"modified":"2020-06-23T12:46:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T19:46:00","slug":"why-arent-people-smarter-the-dubious-benefits-of-intelligence-real-or-artificial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/why-arent-people-smarter-the-dubious-benefits-of-intelligence-real-or-artificial","title":{"rendered":"Why aren\u2019t people smarter? The dubious benefits of intelligence, real or artificial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R74xbOnoWOQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Intelligence \u2014 real or artificial \u2014 is supposed to be a big advantage. But we\u2019ve had millions of years to evolve real intelligence and dumbness is rampant. Which raises the question: If intelligence is so good, why aren\u2019t we more like Mr. Spock and less like Captain Kirk?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intelligence \u2014 real or artificial \u2014 is supposed to be a big advantage. But we\u2019ve had millions of years to evolve real intelligence and dumbness is rampant. Which raises the question: If intelligence is so good, why aren\u2019t we more like Mr. Spock and less like Captain Kirk?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}