A while back, I asked a simple question:

Are we getting dumber?

This time, I went looking for receipts.

What I found completely changed the episode I thought I was making.

The famous goldfish attention span statistic? It isn't true.

The Flynn Effect? Very real.

Reading scores? Declining.

AI? More complicated than the internet wants it to be.

And somewhere in the middle of all that research, I realized this episode was never really about intelligence.

It was about curiosity.

About attention.

About practice.

And about one simple question that might matter more than all the others:

What parts of being human should we never outsource?

Join me as we follow another Average Joe Nerdcast rabbit hole through misinformation, cognitive science, reading, AI, and the surprising hope hidden underneath all of it.

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