Could this have to so with smart people increasing pursuing hedonism over reproduction? Maybe Idiocracy was right all along.
From a strict evolutionary perspective I have doubts that a high IQ is useful anymore.
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From a strict evolutionary perspective I have doubts that a high IQ is useful anymore.
A big part of "The Bell Curve" was arguing that no interventions could change IQ except genetics and so any money spent on low IQ people (African-Americans in the book, but the author followed up by attacking poor people more generally) was a pointless waste.
It turns out he wasn't just an asshole, he was also wrong.
> A big part of "The Bell Curve" was arguing that no interventions could change IQ except genetics
So its like a "climate change denier" who says "oh I dont deny climate change, its just that I oppose every commonly accepted way to combat it and therefore am in complete policy alignment with actual climate change demiers (who all love my work despite a literal reading being that I’m saying they are wrong)."
I think they're liars that at the very least want you to believe the gap is mostly genetic. But they've carefully avoided ever directly stating that, because of the Nazi eugenics vibe that would give off.
So to try to avoid being accused of misrepresenting these disingenuous liars, I stated not that they believe it's 100% genetic, but rather that they believe no interventions would help.
It's their logical inconsistency, not mine.