Message from @ebowden

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2018-04-18 18:44:33 UTC  

So until one of the generations decides they will be the ones to sacrifice them the bloodline will stay poor

2018-04-18 18:44:42 UTC  

My grandparents were dirt fuckung poor

2018-04-18 18:45:01 UTC  

Vut they worked hard as fuck in fields and driving trucks to give my mom a better shot

2018-04-18 18:45:14 UTC  

And then my mom got a better job in turn giving me a better shot

2018-04-18 18:45:25 UTC  

That's what happened with me.

2018-04-18 18:45:27 UTC  

And if I have kids they will have a better shot then me

2018-04-18 18:45:33 UTC  

And so on

2018-04-18 18:46:25 UTC  

If you're in a shit situation you have to he the one to sacrifice so that 2-3 generations later your kids are making twice as much as you before they hit 22

2018-04-18 18:47:11 UTC  

Sadly, heritable characteristics also determine what one makes.

2018-04-18 18:48:08 UTC  

I'm hoping to be fruitful and multiply by 28,29

2018-04-18 18:48:32 UTC  

A world in which one could buy a higher IQ in a bottle would be a more equal one.

2018-04-18 18:49:07 UTC  

Mainly because it will have a vanishingly small effect on the already very smart, and greater effects the dumber the patient.

2018-04-18 18:49:31 UTC  

Or we could just genetically alter people so they don't suck

2018-04-18 18:49:31 UTC  

(Drugs that modify cognitive abilities tend to work in this way.)

2018-04-18 18:49:52 UTC  

Make stem cells great again

2018-04-18 18:50:09 UTC  

If you think tablets will get people screeching, germline editing would be something else entirely.

2018-04-18 18:50:27 UTC  

Its much eauser to alter your will to work and make it then modify your IQ

2018-04-18 18:51:02 UTC  

IQ is mostly heritable and efforts to increase it have thus far failed.

2018-04-18 18:52:09 UTC  
2018-04-18 18:53:44 UTC  

Huge, bipartisan programs in the US all met with unequivocal failure.

2018-04-18 18:54:04 UTC  

For the simple reason that there is not much one can do.

2018-04-18 18:54:32 UTC  

If you show your kids the will to work

2018-04-18 18:54:34 UTC  

IQ is highly heritable, and only gets more heritable the older you are.

2018-04-18 18:54:42 UTC  

And you give them a better shot then you had

2018-04-18 18:54:45 UTC  

They will do the same

2018-04-18 18:54:48 UTC  

Yes.

2018-04-18 18:54:54 UTC  

Well, not always, but yes.

2018-04-18 18:54:55 UTC  

But you have to always instill that idea

2018-04-18 18:55:11 UTC  

You can duck that up just as quick by giving your kids whatever they want

2018-04-18 18:55:26 UTC  

By not holding them accountable for the actions

2018-04-18 18:55:38 UTC  

Not giving them responsibility then punishing them for not meeting them

2018-04-18 18:56:01 UTC  

Something as simple as getting them a puppy

2018-04-18 18:56:36 UTC  

@Seatoast Games designed to enhance IQ do not work.

2018-04-18 18:57:38 UTC  

High intensity first person shooters are certainly not designed to do that, yet they enhance visual acuity and IQ.

2018-04-18 18:57:52 UTC  

(Where games designed to do so failed.)

2018-04-18 18:58:22 UTC  

Give your kids some some really hard FPSs @Seatoast.

2018-04-18 18:59:04 UTC  

Unlike a whole bunch of other woo that will be pushed on you, that shit actually has quite a significant effect.

2018-04-18 18:59:15 UTC  

And is actually fun.

2018-04-18 19:00:23 UTC  
2018-04-18 19:01:34 UTC  

I'm serious, in the paper I read it was a 6 point enhancement, which is huge for things like this.

2018-04-18 19:10:38 UTC  

I agree