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I wouldn't worry too much. There is a feedback loop. Modern industrial society has a few core components like welfare, addiction, extreme individualism, inequal

I wouldn't worry too much. There is a feedback loop. Modern industrial society has a few core components like welfare, addiction, extreme individualism, inequality, and short term thinking that do not select for high IQ and are not amenable to fostering high IQ - we end up with DINKs and idiocracy and people just don't have to be that smart to survive and operate. There's very little need today to plan ahead, to figure things out, to do new things. But the assumption is that modern society needs some high IQ to operate. At some point, IQ drops to the point where modern industrial society fractures, and selection forces reemerge to favor IQ friendly environments. You should worry that about the possibility that recent tech has sidestepped the IQ feedback loop. That is, the tech is good enough without human input that it can sustain a low IQ society. In that case, it's downhill from here. Interesting read: http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.com http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.com

comboy 7y ago
It seems to me that many people who have kids early (and often have many kids) are those who got them, even if not by an accident, then at least without thinking much about it. Those who try to learn as much as possible first, often decide that it overwhelms them. Planning ahead also seems to be correlated with better use of birth control. I agree that there is some evolutionary negative feedback loop but we are doing are best to work against it because that seems like a right thing to do. The feedback loop we haven't handled yet is automation which is increasing minimum IQ required to get a job.