In fact the key prejudice that drives eugenics is something now Juan to be definitively false (that all "positive" traits are correlated, that physically healthy and beautiful people are also competent, virtuous and wise)https://twitter.com/Simon_Whitten/status/1228991252106039302 …
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This is why the traits eugenicists want to breed for *don't exist* There is no such thing as "intelligence", singular That is a word we use for being competent at solving problems, but the kinds of problems that exist in the real world are diverse and ever shifting
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What it means to be "intelligent" depends entirely on the world you happen to live in, and people live in a lot of different worlds, both across the population and over time
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If you try to make the human species "more intelligent" by selecting only for neurological traits you think of as positive and killing everyone with traits you think of as negative, you will ALWAYS be making humans "less intelligent" Throwing out most of the tools in the box
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And that's even assuming you halfway know what you're doing, which Nazis usually don't The absurdity of trying to make "better" humans by breeding for tallness or blondeness or whatever traits the architect of genocide thought were sexy, and thinking "intelligence" comes with it
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The same logic by which we tried to create "better" dogs based on aesthetically pleasing muzzles and just created a breed that spends most of its life struggling to breathe
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And Dawkins should absolutely know that. I expect bad takes from him now, but, for this one, Selfish Gene Dawkins would frown at today's Dawkins.
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No, fitness is capacity to leave descendants.
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Correct! But, well, generally, survival and capacity to reproduce and have offspring survive in current conditions is one of the requirements to leave descendants, making fitness a shifting target that might favor different portions of the population at different times. (And when
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