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I don't think it will be the same, but I also don't think we have any idea how it will actually affect us. Human development is a true chaos system. Psychohistory is fiction. Maybe AI might be able to enable it, but it sure ain't here, now.

If we are looking just at IQ scores, then there's literally, billions of factors involved. It could be chemistry, nuclear radiation, malnutrition, stress, etc.

Most of that stuff is totally unpredictable, and we can only tell, after the fact.

Alea jacta est. There's nothing we can do about it. The candy ain't going back into the piƱata. We'll just have to see what happens.





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