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Sebastian Jensen's avatar

I see a lot of pragmatic barriers like 140 IQ married couples deciding to mate for life and forgo working to create value, but they could probably be overcome with the right adjustments.

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Shannon Barrera's avatar

I think it would work in the sense that it would increase the average IQ of the population, but I suspect you’d see a lot more autistic people. That’s not necessarily a bad thing but you’d have to figure out a way to support high IQ autistic people so they can contribute to society in a way that doesn’t force them into environments incompatible with their neurotype. Otherwise you’ll just have a bunch of disabled people.

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LV's avatar

I think you would see more neurological generic diseases like Tay-Sachs

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Stoddard Davenport Humphrey's avatar

I'd be curious to see how a negative eugenics program would affect the average IQ and the crime rate.

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Solar Judaism's avatar

It works, and exists in South Korea

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no thank you's avatar

I'm mildly interested in what you think causes outliers like these on dating apps, if attractiveness and gender gap theories are both overrated.

https://imgur.com/gallery/hi-th-RqBiHbe

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Uncorrelated's avatar

I'd suggest reading: "Have Dating Apps Really Ruined The Dating Landscape" by Nuance pill.

https://nuancepill.substack.com/p/have-dating-apps-ruined-dating

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no thank you's avatar

This seems a lot like loose statistics based copium, to be honest. One guy can rack up 100+ likes in a day, 20,000 matches over the course of a couple months, while the average dude might get 5-10 likes a week but chads don't exist? A girl gets 22,000 likes in a day but let's use a bunch of vaguely related surveys to say ackshually that doesn't mean anything?

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