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Re:Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words” by hef19898 on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @03:13AM (#31093739)
Idiocracy was, it seems, a prediction. They just got the time scale wrong, we won't need 500 years. Software means we don't need to wait for social-economic factors and genetics to run their course.
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Re:Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words” by gota on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @11:23AM (#31098261)
Yet again I have to comment that formal education levels of the parents do not affect the genetic predisposition of prole to be intelligent

And that Idiocracy got the "hereditary" aspect completely and utterly wrong

It was also completely unnecessary - a better and more accurate idiocracy would have people becoming progressively more stupid juste because they can, not because their parents being poor/uneducated made their brains limited

Sorry if this is a rant or too out of topic. I'm just kind of amazed by how Idiocracy progressively becomes this representative piece for a completely bogus argument

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