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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The results will be entertaining. Lay people really don't understand that when you select for one trait, especially one as polygenic and complex as intelligence, you almost always inadvertently select [i]for [/i] other [i]less [/i]desirable traits and [i]against [/i]other [i]more [/i] desirable traits as well. The law of unintended consequences holds strong in this context.

Moreover, I wonder if any of the parents trying to select for IQ fully understand that very high intelligence is not the exclusive domain of well-adjusted or traditionally successful people. Intelligence in itself is simply not useful in society. It has to be combined with personal traits, upbringing, and life experiences that make its expression in a socially rewarded way possible. Otherwise, vast intelligence can actually be unusable (see schizophrenia), counterproductive (see severer forms of autism) and/or dangerous (see antisocial personality disorder).

Some of the most intellectually advanced people I have ever encountered--in terms of raw IQ; the capacity for strategic, complex, and high-level thinking; and preternatural self-control--have also been inmates. Many of these men aren't crazy in any sense. They are very lucid and very intentional. They have just chosen to apply their superior abilities to defrauding, abusing, or outright hunting their fellow humans. They choose to amass victims, not wealth or accolades. [/quote]

This! High IQ and mental illness, as well as social difficulties go hand in hand. A lot of high IQ struggle immensely to succeed within  society.  [/quote]

Yep.  And imagine screwing around with the embryos before implanting it back in the womb.  I’d guess it would be the start of new genetic abnormalities.   We don’t know enough about the brain to mess around with it.   We still haven’t found the complete genetic code for autism, schizophrenia, OCD.   [/quote]

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