Stupidity is a more well-posed, lawfully generative, and coherent phenomenon. More worthy of scientific modeling than intelligence. With intelligence all you get is a vague g correlation across tasks. With stupidity, there's a whole cosmology to be constructed.
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you have successfully convinced me that a certain amount of stupid is adaptive for a group
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Let me invite you to go full redpill on this onehttp://www.science20.com/hammock_physicist/survival_stupidest-77846 …
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I mean, yeah http://www.xenosystems.net/iq-shredders/ modern post-industrial economy is bad for reproduction by intelligent people (also regression to the mean but never mind that)
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I think you'd have to back to the first hominids to find the main evolutionary leap advantage intelligence provided. One-time bonus.
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Evolutionary, possibly. General life outcomes definitely correlate with g
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But end-of-the-bell-curve intelligence probably doesn't increase reproductive fitness
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genetic reproduction or memetic? :D
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