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408jay t1_j30ci12 wrote

Society will collapse and we as a species will lose both technology and intelligence, reverting to a much smaller body with a much smaller (and cheaper to support in terms of required nutrients) brain. Something occupying a semi arboreal niche somewhere between squirrels and raccoons.

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Fuzzycolombo t1_j30kjr4 wrote

We would have to evolve to a different diet for something like this to occur. I’d imagine it take generations for the shrinking and morphing of the brain to occur.

On the flip side, humans may actually be happy for once, not having so much damn intellect to overthink and create existential despair at their own mortality, social standing, wealth, genetics, etc…

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