Given competition over limited resources, it's always in many coalitions' advantage to get rid of the scary smart people.
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This is obviously true of modern academia/science, but seems also true of bandits (stationary or otherwise) farming humans. Or poker games.
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@soapjackal no they prevent them from breeding by sending them to monasteriesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@soapjackal Judaism kept high IQ folks breeding; Christianity and Buddhism seem to have excluded them in monasteries - 1 more reply
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@alasdairtweets @byrneseyeview GWB has noticeably impaired verbal fluency, but so did his father. Aside from that, could be v. high. -
@St_Rev@alasdairtweets and we overestimate their gaffe-y-ness. While campaigning they talk, on camera, constantly. - 1 more reply
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@sarahdoingthing It takes evolving at the rapidly changing borders of ecosystems needing disparate skill sets. -
@sarahdoingthing Wet, dark, bountiful rainforests giving way to dry, open savannah has also produced the elephant.
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@sarahdoingthing socialness rewards communication, cooperation & lowering a shared burden ->> abstraction abilities -
@sarahdoingthing super-smart weirdos still seems like kind of an accident though - 1 more reply
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