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Fermi Paradox solved by AI deskilling, user claims

A Mastodon user has proposed a novel solution to the Fermi Paradox, suggesting that advanced civilizations inevitably develop Large Language Models (LLMs) or AI. This development, they argue, leads to a rapid deskilling of the population, causing the civilization to cease existing or become incapable of interstellar communication. The user believes humanity is currently on this trajectory, citing concerns about declining reading comprehension among college freshmen as evidence of this self-inflicted decline. AI

RANK_REASON This is a user's opinion on a social media platform, not a verifiable event or research.

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    Given a recent USA headline about how the new crop of incoming freshmen college students can't even read well enough to read a complete sentence, I had a sudden

    Given a recent USA headline about how the new crop of incoming freshmen college students can't even read well enough to read a complete sentence, I had a sudden burst of inspiration. I believe I have solved a long-standing scientific problem. It's the Fermi paradox: given how we …