>why would we expect an intelligence-focused eugenics program to be useful at all? Are there no uses of a having a higher population average intelligence besid

>why would we expect an intelligence-focused eugenics program to be useful at all? Are there no uses of a having a higher population average intelligence besides "does it immediately produce nuclear fusion"? Is higher average intelligence good for many many many other things besides producing fusion? Of course it is, this is an absurd premise. Also, where did nuclear fission get invented? Are there correlated differences in IQ of people from this region? Did nuclear fission get invented in areas with low average IQ? "An IQ is a just a number coming out of a test". Oh, but it does correlate with other group-wide achievements that aren't just numbers coming out of a test, does it not? >Surely the majority of useful discoveries are made by people with above-average IQs How it is not obvious then that increasing the average would also increase the level of the outliers and their ceiling?