>>11458457Maybe they're not being selected out because there's no environmental pressure for them to be selected out? I feel to say we know better than natural selection, and indeed, understand natural selection better than nature, is an error. We might egotistically select for things that appear beneficial but that are going to lead to disastrous or disadvantageous consequences.
Yes, I've watched idiocracy. Yes we do need to become smarter. Yes we do need to understand why some babies come out and grow into geniuses and others come out and grow into retards like the rest of us.
As an example I think about a fair bit, people used to have to do a whole lot more calculation in their heads - you can develop this and develop this and perform the most incredible calculations in this working space in your mind - John Von Neumann & Tesla could do this to quite an extreme degree, for example. Well, now we have computers so the need to develop this is nowhere near as urgent so most don't do it - we just use a spreadsheet and crunch the equations. This is fine and useful, but one has to consider what we are losing by not doing it in our heads - inside minds that can connect all sorts of ideas and concepts and structures together in new ways that computers that cant. The technology we build to help us, can actually make us less smart.
