The Mediocrity Pandemic: When Minds Beg for Pennies Before Machines That Could Build Empires
People flaunt access to artificial superintelligence the way a drunkard waves car keys, not realizing the vehicle is a Formula One machine while they only drive it into ditches. Instead of asking questions that stretch knowledge, bend reality, or expose hidden truths, the majority squander the tool by begging for pocket change and recycled templates. It is the equivalent of inheriting a library of Alexandria and only using it to press flowers. This tragedy of imagination reveals a society not starved of technology, but starved of vision, breeding a mediocrity pandemic that mocks human potential. The greatest tragedy of the modern age is not the absence of genius, it is the absolute waste of it. We live in a time where people can summon machines that reason faster than entire universities, yet their first instinct is to beg for trivialities. One opens an artificial superintelligence as if cracking a vault that contains all the treasures of human thought, only to demand a shortcut to poc...