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IQ AND EUGENICS

As far as I know, there are something on the order of 80 different agencies that contribute to the experience we call ‘mind’.

As far as I know, and as far as the research seems to indicate, “G” or ‘general intelligence’ is an attempt to measure DEMONSTRATED intelligence, when it was found (and still remains) that people who did better on intelligence tests, do better in every dimension of testing, and also, in every dimension of LIFE.

Now Aggregates (Averages), are necessary for us to make general statements, but aggregates launder interesting noise. So while it may be true that people with higher general intelligence excel at pretty much everything, that does not ALWAYS mean that some people are capable in niche functions of which there are 80. However, what appears to be the case, is that IQ reflects DEMONSTRATED intelligence remains very consistent in all walks of life.

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF OBJECTIONS

Most of what we see from objections to IQ are either differences in rates of maturity (girls feel smarter than boys at certain points in development because they mature faster), Dunning-Krueger effects (which are optimistic biases necessary for an acting organism’s survival), or fear demonstrations of denial, (“I will be left behind”), or solipsisms (inability to separate the self from general statements about humans – necessary for raising children). The people who practice denial are demonstrating fear and that is all.

Most of this problem in society comes from the transition of polytheistic individualism that seeks utility in the , to monotheistic, idealistic, collectivism that seeks sameness.

Hence my preference for market government and polytheistic orders, so that each of us feels good finding a niche rather than feel bad if we are not the top 10% in our class.

THE VALUE OF EUGENICS

As far as I can tell, the spatial (modeling), and verbal (observing, ordering and describing the the model), are sufficiently correlative with demonstrated intelligence that these two factors are accurate predictors of nearly all areas of life.

And those that are not, are due to patience and discipline – which is why westerners have and easterners have been so successful: culling the impulsive, and pressing discipline and patience into the lower classes which nearly always are a drag on society other than providing labor and serving as armies with which to hold land.

Eugenics can take positive (enhancement) or restrictive(limiting or prohibiting reproduction), or negative(culling by killing or hanging) strategies – or all of the above.

And it is probably the most important commons that we can construct.

Propertarianism: Since all ‘goods’ are known by exchange, my solution to the problem of eugenics is merely to do the opposite of what we do now: pay unproductive people not to have children, or to have only one child, and punish them if they do otherwise.