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There are still MUDs around. Heck, there are still commercial MUDs around. One might imagine that a text-only medium would keep the idiots at bay, but one need only look at forums to realize that you only need borderline literacy to become a plague upon the internet.

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As I've always said, the average internet user of today is not as bright as the average internet user 10 years ago.

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Ten years ago internet users were probably just about as bad as they are now. Go back to before September 1993 and the average intelligence was much higher.

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—Alorael, who thinks MMORPGs would be vastly improved by strong AI. Among the other benefits, a Dark Lord run by a human-hating artificial intelligence trapped in a game would be a very scary villain.

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Ten years ago internet users were probably just about as bad as they are now. Go back to before September 1993 and the average intelligence was much higher.

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The internet population didn't change overnight. I'd guess even in 1996 a large proportion of users still accessed internet from college or work. If you want to blame something for massive influx of kids, it would be a campaign to connect libraries and schools in late 90s.

I am not saying that kids are dumber than adults, but a lot of annoying behavior online is due to 9 year olds acting like 9 year olds.

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—Alorael, who thinks MMORPGs would be vastly improved by strong AI. Among the other benefits, a Dark Lord run by a human-hating artificial intelligence trapped in a game would be a very scary villain.

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Especially when that human-hating AI decides to take over the world by hacking into systems controlling all our infrastructure and equipment from power grids to military satellites. :)

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