Timeline for Everyone gets an IQ of 300. What are the downsides?
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| Apr 27, 2016 at 1:26 | comment | added | Sqeaky | Where you put "implication" I think you "causation", implying something does not guarantee, but rather hints at a thing. IQ certainly implies other things, but does not cause or guarantee them. | |
| Mar 1, 2016 at 15:01 | vote | accept | Nzall | ||
| Sep 1, 2015 at 20:27 | comment | added | ChrisLively | @gnasher729: Being intelligent doesn't mean you are smart. Those are very different concepts. The former you are born with - an innate ability to better process information. The latter comes from experience, such as through formal education or self learning. Point being - just because everyone could spontaneously process information at a better rate or higher quality than before doesn't meant that any opinion would change. Opinions would only change when conflicting information with a higher trust level is processed - and the person is emotionally capable of recognizing bad positions. | |
| Sep 1, 2015 at 1:31 | comment | added | Kolaru | @gnasher729 I have added an appendix to clarify my point. I do not claim that geniuses will stick on their old positions, but I affirm that it is a possibility which should be taken in consideration. | |
| Sep 1, 2015 at 1:24 | history | edited | Kolaru | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Appendix added.
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| Sep 1, 2015 at 0:06 | comment | added | gnasher729 | @Kolaru: There's a reason why they don't want the brightest people as soldiers... Don't you think an IQ of 300 would overcome "training to obey" within two seconds? Defending their world view: My current world view would be full of holes when looked at with an IQ of 300. Why on earth would I defend it? | |
| Aug 31, 2015 at 13:17 | comment | added | Jose Luis | It is important to remember that the elites are not losing the money they have amassed... Money would still work the same way it does now, independent of intelligence. Except if the people stop using it outright. | |
| Aug 30, 2015 at 23:30 | comment | added | Kolaru | @gnasher729 It is sure something which count against wild repression. However, it is not clear that sudden surge in intelligence will change the opinion of somebody toward hierarchy (particularly for soldiers, since they are trained to obey). In fact it is not clear that it will change the opinion of anybody on anything : it may be that everybody just get better at defending their old views. We may consider the latter not to be intelligent, but it will depend heavily on the definition of intelligence. | |
| Aug 30, 2015 at 22:14 | comment | added | gnasher729 | "People previously in charge could react quite violently against that". With what? With an army or a police force, where everyone in that force knows that the orders they receive just come from a bunch of has-beens? | |
| S Aug 30, 2015 at 18:21 | history | suggested | Tyrabel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added a reference for child development
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| Aug 30, 2015 at 17:56 | history | answered | Kolaru | CC BY-SA 3.0 |