(You say ‘eugenics’ like it’s a bad thing, and imply dysgenics is a good thing.)

(You say ‘eugenics’ like it’s a bad thing, and imply dysgenics is a good thing.)

Anyway,

1) personality traits evolved as an intersection between gender strategy and prey drive. The prey drive consists of five physical systems. These systems are altered by gender and neotonic selection (success at extending immaturity).

2) The personality traits which most influence lifetime success are intelligence, industriousness, and conscientiousness.

3) Intelligence is categorizable a personality trait, appears to be the most important trait, appears to be largely a function of neoteny, size, and verbal ability.

4) It’s controversial but I’ve talked to Lynn about it, and he’s adamant that we’ve lost 15pts of aggregate IQ in the past century, even if we’ve seen flynn effects from (a) ending developmental nutrition problems, and (b) the power of training in general (scientific) rules vs specific case rules. World IQ is dropping precipitously.

5) the most important feature that determines the standard of living (and political stabiity) of a polity is IQ.

Net is, 20th c was a disaster.