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Re: Future of Humanity (was: lotsa stuff)
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Mon, 29 Oct 2001 23:53:09 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tom Stangl writes:
> Ross Crawford wrote:
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> > > This is an interesting point. It is a generaisation, but in the UK low
> > > income families tend to have more kids than higher earners. Many couples
> > > (married or otherwsie) decide to have only one or no kids at all. If we
> > > assume (again a generisation) that low income familes have lower levels of
> > > intelligence (measured by lower levels of educational attainment) is our
> > > gene pool geing skewed the wrong way?
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> > Is there a "wrong way"?
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> I would think that most people with at least middling intelligence would tend • to
> agree that decreasing the overall intelligence level of our species is the • "wrong
> way".
That may be so, but I would think that most people who have a middling
understanding of evolution would agree that intelligence has little (if any)
effect on it.
> Do you have a reason to think that decreasing our species intelligence is the • right
> way to go?
No.
Read the question again. I was questioning whether or not the notion of right &
wrong[1] can be applied to evolution, I made no comment whether or not
decreasing intelligence was right or wrong[1].
IMO, intelligence may help us overcome various individual events[2], but makes
little (if any) difference to the overall evolution of a species.
ROSCO
[1] as applied to the way our gene pool may be skewed
[2] which may range from milliseconds to several generations, but that's still
a needle in the haystack of evolution
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| (...) I dispute that. While there will always be people on the far edges of the bell curve no matter what the scale of the curve, I would tend to believe that having that curve shifted UP would increase the chance of our species surviving longer, (...) (23 years ago, 2-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I would think that most people with at least middling intelligence would tend to agree that decreasing the overall intelligence level of our species is the "wrong way". Do you have a reason to think that decreasing our species intelligence is (...) (23 years ago, 29-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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