Timothy Birdnow

This is exactly how the Morlocks separated from the Eloi:

In H.G. Wells' famous novel The Time Machine the time traveler found that humanity had split into two separate species - the passive, beautiful, and completely stupid Eloi who lived on the surface of the Earth in a veritable Garden of Eden and the Morlocks, underground dwellers who had vast machines and industry. Turns out the Morlocks bred the Eloi as cattle for their dinner tables.

Wells believed that the wealthy elites would find life increasingly easy and would no longer have to think, eventually atrophying their mental capacity while the Morlocks, the laboring class who had to think to survive, would become the dominant species, living underground as they had been forced to do and laboring on the machines which made the surface a paradise.

Wells hinted at this in other works as well. He believed this was humanity's fate.

At any rate if Chappelle is correct and thinking is going to be just for poor people Wells' dystopic vision may yet come to pass.

What separates us from the animals? Our ability to think. Animals think in their own way but not even remotely as do we. And the wealthy elites are increasingly stupid thanks to a life of ease and the increasing stupidity of what passes for education these days. Their parents were smart, people who were bright enough to make a lot of money, but as time goes by and the universities teach inane nonsense the intelligence of the progeny will keep dropping. Now with AI there is no longer any need to actually think and the wealthy may well wind up with ever-dropping I.Q.'s while the working class is forced to solve problems. In the end MAGA will win just as it did in Wells' dystopian future. In his future the Morlocks ate the Eloi (a cautionary tale since Wells was a socialist) but the reality is more mundane; they will simply supplant them. Like the Bourgouis in Europe supplanted the old aristocracy so too the modern Morlocks will eventually supplant the Ruling Class in this world. It might take a long time but it will eventually happen. The Eloi are slowly but surely losing the very thing that gave them the hubris to think they could fundamentally transform the world in the first place.

No dining on them - they probably would taste bad anyway. But certainly they can meet the fate of the House of Lords in Britain - obscurity and irrelevance.

AI may well accelerate that process. I sure do hope so.

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