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> Some of the other commenters here have posited a "vibe code theory". As the amount of vibe code in production increases, so does the number of bugs and, therefore, the number of outages.

Likely this coupled with the mass brain damage caused by never-ending COVID re-infections.

Since vaccines don't prevent transmission, and each re-infection increases the chances of long COVID complications, the only real protection right now is wearing a proper respirator everywhere you go, and basically nobody is doing that anymore.

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Are you being hyperbolic? It's clearly not this, and very likely not GP's proposal either.

No, and it's easy to find ample research backing it up.

Agreed.

Most people are not self reflective reflective enough to notice. Need to trust the studies.

Far more plausible than the AI ideas.

I find it far more likely these are smart people running without oversight for years pre-COVID, relying on being smart at 2am change windows. Now half or a full std. dev. lower on the IQ scale, hubris means fewer guard rails before change, and far lower ability to recover during change window.

Exactly. The effects can include both "brain fog" as well as impaired judgement, since the brain areas affected have to do with executive function.

We can even see (measure) it in driving behavior patterns.

Another data point is how Hollywood has gone to great lengths to keep the whole thing hush hush, because such a downer is bad for business:

https://old.reddit.com/r/ZeroCovidCommunity/comments/1ncmclw...

I somehow doubt that if a majority of the population was a full standard deviation lower on the IQ scale that nobody would be talking about it, that there wouldn't be more research, and that it wouldn't be covered by the news whatsoever.

Keep in mind many parties benefit from capitalizing on hysterical hype. And you're going to sit here and tell me they're all keeping it covered up for some reason?

This comes off like the extreme left-wing equivalent of extreme right-wingers that say the "world is run by the evil jewish cabal" and when people ask for proof, they retort "everyone is hiding it so none exists".

I agree with you about the IQ thing but am not seeing how this is a left-wing thing.

Experts are talking about it. The news is not. I know who I'm siding with.

It comes to no surprise that media owned by capital interests is falling in line with said capital interests.

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-co...

Again, you could quite literally copy+paste this message onto a /pol/ thread about how "the jews run the world" and it would fit right in.

For a select few, maybe, but it's obviously not enough of the population to make a significant difference in downtime outages in large tech corporations.

It's far more likely due to either AI, or more directly, layoffs and offshoring, as that affects hundreds of thousands of their employees.

I have become dumber without having contracted covid or other respiratory diseases (which could have been covid). 2020s have been the era of fascism, war and communities getting torn, which does not really help with stress levels and intellectual performance.

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