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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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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The traditional measures of intelligence like "IQ" seem to measure thinking SPEED more than "intelligence". Education, at least until college level, seems to focus mostly on memorization. But there's more to intelligence that that. What about conceptualization? creativity?
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College hammered this home for me: I had a friend who was, linguistically, a genius. He could, freshmen year, speak three languages fluently, and also read Greek. One summer, he taught himself intro arabic *because he was bored* But-
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He could not pass precalculus. Just. Could not get his head around it. It took him three tries.
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Which is why the ultimate irony would be for a eugenicist society to fall apart because the environment changes in a way they don’t expect.
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How does g fit into this? (Honestly asking) Isn't the idea behind g that, if you're good at solving one kind of problem, then, chances are, you're also good at solving other problems?
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