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by explodingman 1565 days ago
Only if intelligence leads to greater fitness in the Darwinian sense. Don't confuse higher socio-economic status with Darwinian fitness. Plenty of people of quite modest intelligence and limited achievement are successfully passing their genes on to the next generation.

Recommended reading: The Marching Morons by Cyril Kornbluth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons

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Ding ding. The reason I love hn!

Never heard of that book and from the wiki entry it sounds amazing and hopefully not prescient.

It's got what plants crave.