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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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Replying to @sonyaellenmann @vgr
enh, what's normally thought of as reproductive fitness is subject to an extremely limited legibility horizon people impose on it a populace that produces more end-of-the-bell-curve g cases, that mostly die without progeny, may thoroughly outcompete populaces that produce fewer
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US in right between generations 3 and 4 of the assortative mating patterns induced by the GI Bill Fewer but more reliably g loaded
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