> unlike height, there's no square-cube law to disadvantage more cognitive horsepower Are you sure? http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150413-the-downsides-of-b

> unlike height, there's no square-cube law to disadvantage more cognitive horsepower Are you sure? http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150413-the-downsides-of-being-clever http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150413-the-downsides-of-be... I have a pet theory that while a modest intelligence advantage is likely to be genuinely beneficial, social animals like humans quickly run into trouble if they stray more than a couple of standard deviations from the average. Imagine living all your life surrounded by idiots (parents, teachers and superiors included), having to explain the stupidest thing in painstaking detail (and regularly being scorned as the one who doesn't get it), and of course having no palatable romantic partners. Down that road lies bitterness, voluntary solitude and maybe substance abuse. Something like http://nautil.us/issue/21/information/the-man-who-tried-to-redeem-the-world-with-logic http://nautil.us/issue/21/information/the-man-who-tried-to-r...