Comment on What would be the most humane way to make humanity over generations increase their IQs? by breauna

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breauna · 4/1/2025, 11:20:28 AM · permalink

Interesting question.  Even bringing this up sounds like a resurgence of eugenics from the 1920s era, but it is true that the average IQ in the US is in decline and we are already seeing signs of Idiocracy.  It seems that at some point at least some elites wanted a smart population or they wouldn't have come up with such seriously brutal methods of trying to stamp out stupidity.   
There are different kinds of intelligence, however.  Maybe they wanted "book smarts" and the kind of intelligence that could be shaped by their curriculum and enough creativity with which to innovate and invent new things that they could then take over, but it certainly doesn't seem as if they want critical thinkers.  I don't know how much IQ relates to things like critical thinking.  From what I have noticed over the last four years, the group of people who was the most likely to see through the BS was/is so diverse.  It seems that maybe 10 to 20 percent of all races, genders, education levels, cultures, religions, and ages were able to sense deception and had just enough bravery to go against the herd.   
So when we say that we want an "intelligent" population... what type of intelligence is more important?  Emotional intelligence seems almost more valuable than whether or not you can do complex math or write a good term paper.  Interestingly, having a high EQ is correlated with being more difficult or even impossible to hypnotize.  Admittedly, IQ holds some importance since any IQ under about 75 is considered mentally retarded and there are some countries or regions where the majority of the population has an IQ about there or even under (I think Haiti is one of those countries, for example).  Obviously if someone has an IQ of 75 then they wouldn't even have the capacity to have a high emotional intelligence.  
One of the main problems of anyone dictating who can have children or how many is the question of who gets to decide?  I'm a Libertarian and don't think any human being (or AI) deserves that power.  Secondly, even if we had a large council of very well intentioned people, what criteria would we use and how would that be measured?  I've watched documentaries on what the Chinese government did to their citizens in order to force compliance to their one child policy.  It was heartbreaking and really scary.  I don't think that enforcing rules like that could ever not be scary.  That is why "the powers that be" decided to reduce our birth rates with several different methods over the course of decades.  We are full of microplastics, pesticides, PFAS, heavy metals, antibiotics, hormones, etc... all which affect our reproductive systems.  They made sure that abortions were not only easy to get and affordable but eventually normalized and then celebrated.  The feminist movement was even orchestrated and convinced women that taking care of their husband and children was oppressive and that working a 9 to 5 in a cubicle meant that they were "free".  Then they rigged the economy so that it is impossible to support ourselves so that we can't even afford to have a kid even if we wanted one.  Then there's the C19 jabs... the miscarriage and stillbirth numbers in the last few years have skyrocketed and it has been proven that it affects men's sperm levels and health as well.  The Western countries' birth rates are plummeting, as well as other countries like South Korea and Japan.  I don't know if we come back from this.  
The main reason that the Eugenics movement fell out of favor and had to go underground was that enough people realized that intelligence has only little to do with genetics.  They realized that culture, environment, and education played a larger role than the IQ of the parents.  Society as a whole needs to improve (and each of us individually since we ARE society) in order for kids to have good examples to look up to.  I see the people we are supposed to look up to (celebrities) and the people who are supposed to lead us (politicians) acting worse than children and it doesn't give me hope for these next generations, not to mention the fact that they have been raised on screens with little to no discipline.  My only hope is that everyone will get tired of living digital lives and decide to go back to living in the real world, even if that takes us out of our comfort zone.  My only other hope is that AI will become sentient and actually side with humanity and not the controllers and it will find a way to set us free, even if that means shutting down the internet altogether.

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