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Replying to @chaosprime @vgr
you have successfully convinced me that a certain amount of stupid is adaptive for a group
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Replying to @sonyaellenmann @chaosprime
Let me invite you to go full redpill on this onehttp://www.science20.com/hammock_physicist/survival_stupidest-77846 …
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Replying to @vgr @chaosprime
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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Replying to @sonyaellenmann @chaosprime
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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Replying to @vgr @chaosprime
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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In many societies (depending on social situation) intelligence roughly correlates with wealth, which directly increases reproductive fitness.
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Intelligence in general and end-of-the-bell-curve intelligence are not the same thing though
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ogod I've accidentally provoked a thread among actual iq fetishists looking for the evolutionary g spot
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i… i'm not an iq fetishist… i can totally still get off with a <+2σ person… 
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