"The overall correlation between cognitive ability scores and the number of children born is r=−0.11" “Small”effects can have very large consequences, particularly when applied to large populations and can accumulate over time." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886918302903 …
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Replying to @NoamJStein
In the absence of harsh Malthusianism, dysgenic process dominates. Historical optimism is simple error.
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Replying to @Outsideness @NoamJStein
Admin believed we're doomed from dysgenics. Also believes in runaway technomic feedback loop. Doesn't see that if the second is true the first must be false, because the second must inevitably infiltrate the first with genetic upgrades.
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Replying to @AMK2934 @NoamJStein
Inhumanly uneven distribution of the techonomic surplus is the only antidote to dysgenics. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness @NoamJStein
You'll get that IF; --Anyone goes to Mars --The rich get genetic upgrades. --Elysium gets built --Capital routes around ur-anarcho-primitivist body odor. One of these is inevitable, and possibly more. But for the love of God, could we low people get the upgrades too?
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Replying to @AMK2934 @NoamJStein
Only if we promise to step up the level of competition with them. Waste them on advances in life quality, and they'll have to be taken away.
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Replying to @Outsideness @NoamJStein
If humans are themselves sufficiently upgraded IQ wise they will see the paradox clearly: that prosperity is a temporary condition created by Malthusian lagging capital processes, and they will ensure the lag continues
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Replying to @AMK2934 @NoamJStein
But humans are becoming dimmer, very rapidly, precisely because they're currently enjoying that gap.
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Replying to @Outsideness @NoamJStein
They won't become dimmer in space, because the environment is sufficiently brutal to maintain IQ
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Replying to @AMK2934 @NoamJStein
No problem then. So long as space is hell we'll do fine.
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Space is all the hell you need, because it is the last frontier of hell
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