There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.
If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence.
Hypotheses are what we lack the least.
We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.
In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Up to this day, there has been no proof of the existence of any intelligence other than the human.