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https://policyoptions.irpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Exponential-intelligence.jpg2000700For many thousands of years, humanity was a very gradual upward trajectory. Progress was achingly slow, almost invisible. Animals and farms, wars and empires, philosophies and religions all failed to exert much influence. But just over two hundred years ago, something sudden and profound arrived and bent the curve of human history — of population […]