Societal Engineering
Contents:
1) Preamble
2) IQ, Maximize It
3) Wealth Creation, Free Market Capitalism
4) Inequality, Minimize It
5) Polygamy, Ban It
1) Preamble:
Not all cultures are equal.
Not all models for running civilization are equal.
There is a recipe for creating a society that is peaceful and prosperous:
-fill it with high IQ people
-have free market capitalism to build wealth
-have mechanisms in place to keep economic inequality down
-ban polygamy
The rest of this piece will be explaining why each of these things is
critical for the building and maintenance of civilization.
2) IQ, Maximize It:
If you fill a place with high IQ people, it will be peaceful and
prosperous. If you fill a place with low IQ people, it will be poor
and violent.
Why?
Because high IQ people are capable of creating wealth (largely by
doing rigorous engineering work), whereas low IQ people are not.
Low IQ people can serve as menial labor, but the economic productivity
a high IQ person can contribute is far greater than the economic
productivity a low IQ person can contribute. GDP per capita will be
higher in a place filled with high IQ people rather than a place filled
with low IQ people.
Places filled with high IQ people are less violent than places filled
with low IQ people, because high IQ men are far more hesitant to
engage in violence than low IQ men.
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, Why high IQ men are more hesitant to engage in violence is open for
debate, but it does stand to reason that they are deterred from
combat because they can more readily foresee the potential negative
consequences than their low IQ counterparts. 'Negative consequences'
would include the risk of injury or death in combat, as well as jail time
or other legal punishment.
How does one maximize the average IQ of people in their society?
Optimizing the environment for young children is critical.
Eliminating early childhood malnutrition is a good start.
Immigration policies should select on the basis of IQ; make it easy for
high IQ people to gain entry to the country, and difficult or
impossible for low IQ people to gain entry to the country.
Dysgenic breeding must be prevented.
In America from 1960 - 2020, it seems to have been the case that low
IQ people were outbreeding high IQ people, and since IQ is heavily
determined by genetics, this is a catastrophe.
The movie 'Idiocracy' is a parody of the phenomenon that is dysgenic
breeding, but it is a very real problem.
More specifically, it seems to be the case that high IQ women have
fewer babies than low IQ women, and with high IQ women mostly
sleeping with high IQ men and low IQ women mostly sleeping with low
IQ men…dumb people are outbreeding smart people.
There are many postulations as to why high IQ women have fewer
babies than low IQ women. The most likely explanation is that high
IQ women are more competent in the use of contraception than low
IQ women.
3) Wealth Creation, Free Market Capitalism:
As of now the only mechanism the human race has ever
discovered for dramatically increasing the total amount of wealth
in a society is free market capitalism.
Use the free market for as many things as possible.
Do keep in mind that there are some things that are better handled
by the government rather than the free market; some things are
better handled by the public sector rather than the private sector.
Such things would include infrastructure (roads and bridges), as well
as medical care.
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Contents:
1) Preamble
2) IQ, Maximize It
3) Wealth Creation, Free Market Capitalism
4) Inequality, Minimize It
5) Polygamy, Ban It
1) Preamble:
Not all cultures are equal.
Not all models for running civilization are equal.
There is a recipe for creating a society that is peaceful and prosperous:
-fill it with high IQ people
-have free market capitalism to build wealth
-have mechanisms in place to keep economic inequality down
-ban polygamy
The rest of this piece will be explaining why each of these things is
critical for the building and maintenance of civilization.
2) IQ, Maximize It:
If you fill a place with high IQ people, it will be peaceful and
prosperous. If you fill a place with low IQ people, it will be poor
and violent.
Why?
Because high IQ people are capable of creating wealth (largely by
doing rigorous engineering work), whereas low IQ people are not.
Low IQ people can serve as menial labor, but the economic productivity
a high IQ person can contribute is far greater than the economic
productivity a low IQ person can contribute. GDP per capita will be
higher in a place filled with high IQ people rather than a place filled
with low IQ people.
Places filled with high IQ people are less violent than places filled
with low IQ people, because high IQ men are far more hesitant to
engage in violence than low IQ men.
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, Why high IQ men are more hesitant to engage in violence is open for
debate, but it does stand to reason that they are deterred from
combat because they can more readily foresee the potential negative
consequences than their low IQ counterparts. 'Negative consequences'
would include the risk of injury or death in combat, as well as jail time
or other legal punishment.
How does one maximize the average IQ of people in their society?
Optimizing the environment for young children is critical.
Eliminating early childhood malnutrition is a good start.
Immigration policies should select on the basis of IQ; make it easy for
high IQ people to gain entry to the country, and difficult or
impossible for low IQ people to gain entry to the country.
Dysgenic breeding must be prevented.
In America from 1960 - 2020, it seems to have been the case that low
IQ people were outbreeding high IQ people, and since IQ is heavily
determined by genetics, this is a catastrophe.
The movie 'Idiocracy' is a parody of the phenomenon that is dysgenic
breeding, but it is a very real problem.
More specifically, it seems to be the case that high IQ women have
fewer babies than low IQ women, and with high IQ women mostly
sleeping with high IQ men and low IQ women mostly sleeping with low
IQ men…dumb people are outbreeding smart people.
There are many postulations as to why high IQ women have fewer
babies than low IQ women. The most likely explanation is that high
IQ women are more competent in the use of contraception than low
IQ women.
3) Wealth Creation, Free Market Capitalism:
As of now the only mechanism the human race has ever
discovered for dramatically increasing the total amount of wealth
in a society is free market capitalism.
Use the free market for as many things as possible.
Do keep in mind that there are some things that are better handled
by the government rather than the free market; some things are
better handled by the public sector rather than the private sector.
Such things would include infrastructure (roads and bridges), as well
as medical care.
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