Honestly, I'm sort of pro creating social incentives for people to not have kids, because those of less intelligence will be driven towards the cash or tax credit pay off and thus will reproduce less.

then you run into population issues

like japan

I'm not for eugenics just because of the fact genetics are dynamical and you can't target what people will have what sort of child precisely.

Other than that, I'm for it.

hell yeah eugenics
if more research went into it it might become more feasible

Population problems are due to dumb humans creating economic systems that scale with populations when ecosystems have finite carrying capacity.

Basically, when you need to cut back on people, you can't because your economy will start to suffer. But if you don't, people suffer due to decreased fitness,

post antibiotic era time

I'm pro genetically engineering smart people who out compete dumb ones.

...What?

genetically engineered people

cool

I work in Genomics.

now if only human cloning wasnt a thing of only fiction

What does that matter? Intelligence is an abstraction of which are genetic and epigenetic factors. The hard to predict parts are the epigenetics.

Why do we need to clone? We just need to modify the corresponding histone.

bioshock time then

CRISPR is great for gene editing especially cas 9

I think most politicians and people are dumb, so the whole thing is an annoyance.

That's where I stand on politics.

I tend to see intelligence as more important, I think, than most people do. Sometimes I wonder whether I overvalue it.

well intelligence is only part of what makes us human

Others tell me IQ is not very important, and I agree if what they mean is that working hard and having integrity are far more important, but acting intelligently is also very important to me.

True.

humans arent cold and logical

It's the part that makes humans survive...

emotions also are a part of humans

And most of the time, people don't attain higher IQs by trying harder or 'working out' their brains, so we can't fault people for having lower IQs than others.

This is why I dislike average people... They say really wrong things.

EQ, I think, is highly important also.

So I agree with you, laurentia.

@JeffDog , I am a Biologist.

since well humans arent robots that operate on pure logic

@laurentia , what is the purpose of emotion?

Nice to meet you, Rayn. I am studying physics.

Emotions are not novel, they serve a purpose.

What is that purpose?

i mean yeah of course they serve a purpose

What's that purpose?

without emotion we probably wouldnt have survived