Might I suggest that actually high IQ isn't an advantage and that society is biased towards the mean range to the detriment of outliers at either end of the spectrum
I’ve been radicalized about this by my mother’s dementia. As her effective IQ sank, it became obvious how many institutions make life so difficult for lower-IQ people, completely unnecessarily. But, indeed, often to the benefit of the high-IQ.https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/1033799904806588417 …
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Yes, that seems right!
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I'm not much motivated by "OMG, the system is so racist", (a) because that plays into partisan politics, (b) because its false. A lot of what snares poor people are cognitive traps. Shaniqua speeds, gets a $20 ticket, forgets to pay it, gets a court date, forgets to show...
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2/ And pretty soon there's an arrest warrant out for her bc she sped a bit, like everyone else, but she - unlike middle class people - is not competent at knowing the date, writing a check, being able to show up and tell a coherent story, etc.
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3/ "Maybe this isn't for them" ...so what's your alternative? Kill them? Sterilize them? I wish we didn't have a cognitive underclass, but we do, and we can't morally just say "eh, !@# them - lock them up every time they jaywalk and let them rot" https://twitter.com/JurisNaturalism/status/1034428197327327232 …
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Cohesive smaller communities and intact extended families help, IMO. People to look out for Joe-what-ain’t-the-brightest-bulb.
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yeah but repacking Pandora's box isn't so easy.
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We can't repack it on macro scale, at least not yet. We have to do it in small communities and try to survive the whatever-is-coming. Cause something is happening and we if we have intact social communities we'll do much better in the long run.
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Yeah, I really don’t think a true macro fix exists at this point. Pockets of sanity that will maybe eventually spread is the only route. Work on that.
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Really sad -- would be curious for examples?
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Income taxes, applications for various kinds of aid, medical history recreated from scratch at every Dr appt, executing a will, banking. I'm 33, this is what I've run into w my dad so far
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Ugh, I'm so sorry :(
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This isn't just Moloch as opposed to malicious collusion? I'm still unsure of the benefits to high-IQ people.
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I don't think it's about the benefit so much as not noticing the costs. It's like someone who's 6'5" building a kitchen and not realizing shelves at his eye level are too high for a lot of people
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There are some benefits -- not just that speeding tickets aren't enforced by getting dragged directly to court with spoiling food in your car or a boss on the phone, but also that these fees don't end up costing more to enforce than they gain.
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In DMV case, often about verification and identity. Most new licenses require spec papers, and are delivered by mail in a couple weeks; this reduces fraud, but is gonna /really/ suck when old ones start expiring and people forgot.
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That said, I doubt it's something that people planned out and coordinated, or even that the benefits are particularly strong motivation. It also may be partly trained skills, as much as IQ: just as memory palace helps significantly w/ recall, tools for dealing w/ bureaucracy.
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yeah i've often thought that in a just society, dominating people with intelligence would be as taboo as dominating people with physical strength is today
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But a well-functioning society cannot give equal “power” to someone with a 120 IQ as a person with an 80 IQ.
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Terminology needs to change. iq is toxic as a brand . Words matter. The worst of the alt-right have co-opted iq for all manners of horror. Need a new way to talk about it if you feel it's an elephant.
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Whatever word you choose to substitute for iq it will acquire the same odor. The concept itself is just very impolite.
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