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To: average joe who wrote (96589)	11/15/2012 7:30:31 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 218871

Not a chance: <Yet that’s exactly what Stanford University researcher Gerald Crabtree suggests is happening in a set of papers, published in the journal Trends in Genetics. Crabtree suggests our intellectual and emotional abilities peaked before our early ancestors began leaving Africa, which occurred some two million years ago. At the time, he argues, intelligence was critical for survival, and thus, under selective pressure, early humans evolved to have genes that maximized brain power. > Women select for intelligence. Genocidal battles select for intelligence. The Flynn Effect demonstrates intelligence gains over 100 years. Scientists are certainly not as intelligent as they were 100 years ago, which might explain his idea. These days, anyone can get an easy science degree and call themselves a scientist. Climate "science" is full of them. The brightest scientists today are brighter than those of 100 or 50 years ago, but the median is wayyyy lower. With 6 billion people now being filtered in the eugenics process, the pressure is bigger and faster than ever by an order of magnitude. When genome analysis is developed so that women can get really good information, the process will go to warp speed. China's one-child policy has made a huge difference too, with female foeticide meaning umpty million males are going to be selected out of the gene pool with intelligence being the main selection variable. It will be a great leap forward. Unplanned but nevertheless true. A government programme has achieved at least one good aspect [which is not to say it was a good policy overall]. Perhaps even overall it will have been good. Depending on your point of view. A bit like slavery was a great idea for the descendants of the slaves, though being shipped from Africa was not exactly a great way of life back then. But even that was perhaps better than that alternative. Being a slave to Thomas Jefferson was doubtless better than being a slave back in Africa. Maori slaves used to be eaten. Life as a slave can be very bad. Maoris would "refrigerate" dinner by breaking their legs and arms so they couldn't escape, but would stay alive. Maori slaves had short, unpleasant lives. I don't know what it was like in Africa, but I bet the NZ Maori slaves would love to have been shipped to Washington. A Maori hobby was facial tattoos, which turned out to be a useful market. First, catch your prisoner, then tattoo their face, then decapitate them, dry the head, and sell it to some curious Europeans buying weird stuff from around the world. Gerald has it wrong. Mqurice

To: average joe who wrote (96589)	11/15/2012 7:39:54 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Respond to of 218871

you mean In the year 2525, if man is still alive If woman can survive, they may find In the year 3535 Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie Everything you think, do and say Is in the pill you took today In the year 4545 You ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes You won't find a thing to chew Nobody's gonna look at you In the year 5555 Your arms hangin' limp at your sides Your legs got nothin' to do Some machine's doin' that for you In the year 6565 You won't need no husband, won't need no wife You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too From the bottom of a long glass tube In the year 7510 If God's a-coming, He oughta make it by then Maybe He'll look around Himself and say "Guess it's time for the Judgement Day" In the year 8510 God is gonna shake His mighty head He'll either say, "I'm pleased where man has been" Or tear it down, and start again In the year 9595 I'm kinda wonderin' if man is gonna be alive He's taken everything this old earth can give And he ain't put back nothing Now it's been ten thousand years, man has cried a billion tears For what, he never knew, now man's reign is through But through eternal night, the twinkling of starlight So very far away, maybe it's only yesterday

To: average joe who wrote (96589)	11/15/2012 9:23:22 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218871

Correct. Anything is surviving! That's going to doom Homo Sapiens Sapiens. As societies went complex, after the industrial revolution, there weren't enough people to man it. We implemented mass schooling to deal with that problem. Mass schooling gives people a sense that they don't need to learn by themselves. Stop learning at the age of 16 for high school or age of 22 if going to university. Complexity went ballistic after WWII. Countries that implemented mass schooling before WWII, harvested the benefits of the capacity to deal with complexity. They managed the system to their advantage and fleeced the uneducated. Uneducated went catch up. And took half century to come on par with the head starters. While the uneducated were trying to catch up, the head starters rested in their laurels. Safe on the belief that their advantage would last forever. The companies in their countries witnessing the coming of the ones catching up, sent the work to be done out there. Thus starting the impoverishing of the ones that no longer had an advantage vis a vis the developing countries. Companies want to keep more of their profits to themselves rather to pay a mass of salaries for the head starters. The advantage was now with the ones that catch up. Next if I have time, I will tell you what companies did to stupidify their employees. Too busy here.