So you predict an even more immediate and catastrophic crash? Well, maybe.

Thank you. It is usually only 2-3 days per week, because I do not need to work 100%.

If you do a dumb comparison, sure. If you look at the benefits I have, it looks a bit different.

Mostly all aspects of IT security these days.

I guess we are seeing the start of the end of the hype. "Investors", dumb and clueless as they may be, are not freely pouring money into the bottomless pit that LLMs are anymore.

1. That would be illegal (Europe) and 2. I am paid from a table since as a lecturer, I am technically a public servant. (No complaints about the salary.)

And fail. This has nothing to do with expertise or education in an area. It has everything to do with how a person approaches a question.

No. There is a group, the "independent thinkers", that do not use this crap. They are small, admittedly, but they do exists. The usual estimate is 10...15% of the population and education seems to make no difference.

Do not make for good engineering. FOSS is no different.

You re not a teen. You are a killer. You just have not run into a situation where you will manifest that yet because you got lucky.

They probably have not gotten dumber, but they definitely think they are smarter and finally have reliable truth at their disposal.

The thing is, these people are the majority (!) of the human race at around 80%. The reason actually mentally capable people see them less often is filter effects. But think of some random relatives, which you probably have minimized or cut contact with.

"Fluid IQ" is just how much of your IQ you actually use. The term was probably invented to not have to tell high IQ people that are not independent thinkers (quite a lot, probably a majority) that they are effectively pretty dump and mentally incapable.

You just exposed yourself as a stupid person. Because all reliable research says exactly the opposite: The more conservative, the more mentally incapable. And that is not even me trying to insult you. That is just a solid fact.

There is one thing: About 10-15% of the population are independent thinkers and about 20-25% (including the former) can be convinced by rational argument. At the same time about 80% of the human race is religious in one form or another. There will be some special cases and some overlap. For example people that know their religious beliefs are irrational and they are just using them to make themselves feel better. But overall, these are the two pools of people we have.

Now, add that fact-checking AI is typically somewhat hard (because it gives you the mainstream results from its training data), and you nicely have that correlation.

As to why there do not seem to be formal studies at this time, that is probably because LLM-type AI is still new and because getting funding for research that both exposes uncritical LLM users and religious people as mentally incapable is likely pretty hard.

It seems to be a population stereotype with about 10-15% percent willing to fact check (and hence getting good at it due to experience) and around 25% in total that are open to rational argument. The rest just wants to feel good about themselves and any lie or illusion that does that is just fine with them.

It does not seem to really be connected to IQ either. It seems to be a fundamental personality defect that transcends ability to handle complexity. I mean, as long as you are smart enough to read, you can find out how most things actually work. It just may take longer. But if you d not want to find out, no amount of reasoning ability will help.