Important to what? Clearly, it's not *that* important to the 'world domination' variable as you just stated.
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Replying to @Locus_of_Ctrl
But who cares? It's world domination what’s not that important. IQ (among other things, but you *need* high IQ) is the basis of a rich and orderly society. At this rate this Alessandra chick is going to introduce her black gf in no time.
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Replying to @thespandrell
You're saying IQ is important for the purpose of order and wealth. But what is the purpose of order and wealth? Is it not very similar to that of 'world domination'? Is it even possible to distinguish one from the other?
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Replying to @Locus_of_Ctrl
China was always (by the standards of the time) orderly and wealthy, but never sought world domination. Rome was orderly and wealthy but never sought domination beyond its immediate region. World domination was a very odd phenomenon that happened in a very particular time.
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Replying to @thespandrell
Yet the "immediate region" of Roman empire had kept expanding for centuries! History is full of ambitious empires that planned on world domination, from Egypt to Hittites to Alexander the Great to Tamerlane to Genghis Khan etc.
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Replying to @thespandrell
Of course not. Then you have European age of exploration, etc. up to and including the American "soft power" empire.
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Replying to @Locus_of_Ctrl
But anyway, let’s admit that “ability to achieve world domination” and IQ don’t map 100%. So fucking what? I don’t want world domination. I just don’t want dumb immigrants. Population IQ is not everything but it’s part of what makes life worth living.
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IQ may be a crude measure but it can establish where the floor is for certain capabilities. We may know it takes 95-100 IQ on average to establish a complex civilization that lasts but it is harder to predict what happens when a 100 IQ group and a 105 IQ group become competitors.
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