What If Every Human Suddenly Had an IQ of 180? The Next 1,000 Years in 12 Minutes

Tomorrow morning you wake up, and the crossword you gave up on last week takes you eleven seconds. So does everyone else's. Overnight, the average human IQ is 180. What happens next? We follow the whole story on a running clock, from the first second to the year 1,000: scams, arguments, jobs, school, boredom, AI, science, inequality… and a twist that points straight back at you. ⏱️ Chapters 0:00 Everyone wakes up at IQ 180 0:25 What IQ really measures 1:45 Second zero 2:19 Minute one 3:07 Hour one 3:55 Day one 4:41 Week one 5:28 Month one 6:22 Year one 7:52 Year ten 9:27 Year one hundred 10:36 Year one thousand 11:28 The twist 12:16 What would you do with it? 💬 If you woke up tomorrow with an IQ of 180, what's the first thing you'd do with it? (And no, finding your keys doesn't count.) Tell me in the comments. 🌎 En español:    / @quepasariasitu603   Sources: IQ scale (mean 100, SD 15) and the one-in-twenty-million figure (normal-curve calculation for +5.3 SD); Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-IV score range (40-160), Pearson; Flynn 1984/1987, Pietschnig & Voracek 2015, Perspectives on Psychological Science (about 3 IQ points per decade, 1909-2013); Flynn 2007, What Is Intelligence? (1900 norms); Stanovich & West 2007, Thinking & Reasoning (myside bias is independent of cognitive ability); Strenze 2007, Intelligence (IQ and income, r ≈ 0.23); UNESCO Science Report (about 9 million researchers worldwide); Bloom, Jones, Van Reenen & Webb 2020, American Economic Review (ideas are getting harder to find: 18x more researchers than in the early 1970s for Moore's law); Wikimedia statistics (about 7 million English Wikipedia articles); Jeanne Calment, longest verified human lifespan (122 years, 164 days). #WhatIf #IQ #ThoughtExperiment