[chezlaw]

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Ignoring ethics it seems highly unlikely that breeding for intelligence wouldn't result in cleverer people.

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The goal isn't "lets have smarter people", its the belief that removing the less intelligent will lead to a better outcome for the human race overall.

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If we selected for the more intelligent and didn't let the relatively stupid reproduce then we would get a higher average intelligence. That seems obvious.

No idea what it means to talk of a better outcome for the human race. Sounds horrible to me but I don't know what the criteria are.

The inherited disease type arguments are kind of irrelevent in terms of this thought experiment. Even without eugenics we will (or could) get to the stage of being able to avoid all of them.

chez