> The average IQ is only 100
You do realize that's a tautology, right? There's no reason productivity couldn't be increased, and one potential method would be to boost human intelligence.
You do realize that's a tautology, right? There's no reason productivity couldn't be increased, and one potential method would be to boost human intelligence.
1. working with computers
2. selling technology
3. thinking about business in the medium term
4. calling ourselves very smart with little backing evidence for that claim
and besides that stuff I am not particularly impressed by the level of intelligence displayed here (including my own)
HN is highly correlated with technical professions and especially programmers. Those things happen to be highly correlated with and selective of IQ.
It's the average emotional intelligence of the human race in a given area combined with the average EI of another areas. Culture/areas/whatever that encourage a high amount of cognitive dissonance will give way to a "contagion" that gives rise to lower EIs through double binding communications between groups. It's better if you start out with a topic that is highly polarized, as that gives the contagion some energy to feed upon.
You see this with Trump, as he is in constant disagreement with himself in what he says, which is dove tailed in behind whatever blaming remark he made when he first started talking. This gets the dissonance going in groups who are, in general, disgruntled about whatever it is they are disgruntled about.
Sigh.
You could at increasing IQ in very poor countries where lack of basic micronutrients is causing IQ issues.
But I think better group intelligence, using current intelligence in poor countries better, AI, productivity increase with better tools currently makes much more sense.
http://www.vice.com/read/chinas-taking-over-the-world-with-a...
Selective breeding in a sense of "selecting the zygote" for ideal outcome. Aka designer babies. This was referred to as "selective breeding" in the press when it came out. A misnomer in that selective breeding has meant selective pairing of parents for at least a century before this article was written.
Note: this is also a company in China, not "China" although the distinction is sometimes muddled they certainly aren't regulating it like it has been in the West. Also, with the only one child policy that was recently lifted it is easy to confuse oppressive breeding requirements in China.