Ah, the freedom of research vs what humanity made of it debate. One can detect what this debate is about, in the direction its proponents want to take the resu

Ah, the freedom of research vs what humanity made of it debate. One can detect what this debate is about, in the direction its proponents want to take the results. There is no search for a "cure" no search for a way to help, instead its almost always a search for a "anti-social" behaviour justification. I want to cut responsibilties for my fellow men, want to cut taxes and justify atrocities, in war and peace, looking scientific doing it. One can predict the "research" to be showing up usually in booming and busting places, were good-times spending has to be cut back and crisis looms. Example is the museums build for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peking_Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peking_Man which currently has a sizeable pseudo science following, explaining any economic superiority with a "race" superiority and definatly do not look like the "Aryan" Uebermensch in old nazi germany museums. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO7dvuDslJk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO7dvuDslJk Want some mental model with some actual explenation power? Human groups cycle through resource crisis since the dawn of time. And we adapted natural instinctive responses to that. A exponential curve cycling endlessly between TheHornOfPlenty > PreCrisis > War > Reconstitution. And evolution, the blind, mindless industrious process it is, "optimizes" to any constant environment, even a cycling one. So there you have them, the whole zoo of adaptions and even "non-intelligence" which all have a place. To not party hard and produce labour intensive offspring en mass is "intelligent" if ones instinct consider the optimization for the loop holy. To have no feeling but group loyalty is not intelligent, unless you are in a mass butchering in some trench and try to get your side home safe. Its not intelligent, but is very good adaption. To be paranoid and direct society tensions to outsiders of the group, is not intelligent, but well adapted to this cycle. All paid the ferry-woman in the end, before science came along and was able to suspend the self destructive vehicle for 70 years. So what is intelligence? Optimal Adaption to the inevitable? Hacking the circumstances, until the inevitable makes it a sizeable catastrophe? Lets assume, being on board, you favour Hacking the circumstances, aka research: You can build great structures from the various loop adaptions. The paranoid make for great explorers of stagnant fields, when forced through training and kept from noise over interpolation. The peacefull ones are great incremental researchers, in newly discovered fields. The warlike ones, make for great critics, unafflicted by emotions and with a few of the whole. Intelligence is the usefullness of pieces in societal machines. The individual is irrelevant.