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We've gotten smarter, to our detriment.
by m_fayer 3mo ago
We've gotten smarter, to our detriment.
- laughing_man 3mo ago[flagged]
- layer8 3mo agoWhat does the individual get out of passing on their genetics?
- cess11 3mo ago[flagged]
- laughing_man 3mo agoNo, I'm responding to a comment.
- pixl97 3mo agoAnd other people are judging your comment as dumb and somewhat misunderstanding of genetics/fitness.
- laughing_man 3mo agoAnd I'm judging them in turn for not understanding intelligence or genetics or fitness and for being passive/aggressive.
- cess11 3mo agoRight, and you seemed to imply that smartness can be measured in how many live copies of one's genes one manages to produce.
- laughing_man 3mo agoSort of. The idea that we're somehow smarter today is nonsense on stilts.
- em-bee 3mo agowe are not smarter, but we have access to more knowledge
- laughing_man 3mo agoI wonder about that. How much of the knowledge we're exposed to is actually true?
- trumpdong 3mo agoSmartest was 10-15 years ago. Flynn effect reversed.
- acheron 3mo ago“So you hate waffles?” https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/no-bitch-dats-a-whole-new-x-wtf-is-you-talkin-about https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/no-bitch-dats-a-whole-new-x-w...
- wtetzner 3mo agoThat depends on whether or not you value passing on your genetics.
- everdrive 3mo agoPotentially. You're mixing "fitness" with "intelligence" -- there's no guarantee that "intelligence" will guarantee fitness.
- trumpdong 3mo agoIf you fail to achieve goals, you're not smarter. But passing on genes is a pretty arbitrary goal. It's the one encoded in our genes, but (looks around at random object) passing on teacup design is encoded in a teacup. The most teacups are the ones that make people look at them and say "I want a copy of that cup". It's just statistics, not the ultimate meaning of the universe. The humans who think it's the ultimate meaning of the universe may be more likely to replicate - but that's a genetically inherited delusion, not a fact. You can pass on your editor choice just as well as you can pass on your genes.
- efilife 3mo agoIs intelligence correlated with having kids?
- abc123abc123 3mo agoNatural selection does not care one bit about the individual, to the question is completely meaningless. Add to that, that we share 99.9% of our DNA, so you passing it on, means I'm passing it on for free, while you sit there with all the cost. Who's the fool now?! ;)