You can't know what's being selected for because the complexity of the protein interactions involved in the are still orders of magnitude beyond current scientific understanding.
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Your proposition here is speculative in the extreme. You go from known phenomenon, the decline in intelligence correlated w/ decrease in selection pressure caused by agriculture & tech advance, to the theory that this can be addressed by a bunch of city states ruled via absolutis
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patchwork is simply one way to increase competition, and whatever survives increased competition is something better at winning games (i.e., more intelligent)
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If it's simply 1 way there's no reason to assume its the best or a good way to reach the intended outcome: the preservation of intelligence. Existing social structures are games in the sense you use the term. The trend of reduced survival pressure has been ongoing for 50k+ years.
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It's absolutely an act of faith to believe that a political system that has never been instantiated or that some rehash of older systems is somehow more effective in this regard than others. My point here is that you argue an act of faith as if it were an objective fact.
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I forgot to mention this earlier but unless you address the claim that reduced competition for intelligence has been ongoing ever since agriculture enabled large populations you tacitly admit that the left liberalism can't have anything to do with it, it's results of tech advance
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I mean at this point we're not debating left liberalism, whatever that is, we're talking about classsical liberalism and in that you have to take down Hume, Kant, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu and any other Giants standing in your way.
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I'm not trying to take them down, nor claiming left liberalism has anything to do with this talk at all.
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this is more addressed to
@outsideness as his original statement was that pinker's defense of liberalism, (and his defense was specifically of the ideals of the enlightenment; classical liberalism) fails to address the pseudocataclysm of dysgenics1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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classical liberalism (unlike Pinker) hadn't seen the kind of Malthusian relaxation that took place in modernity.
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Explicitly predicted and warned about it, though, until told in the 20th century to stop talking about the topic (when -- by striking coincidence -- it itself died).
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