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She's likely not too bright. Of course there's going to be problems with her decision making process. Can she be blamed for it? Not really, because intelligence is mostly genetic.

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You're going to get downvoted for saying something objectively true.

I, on the other hand, desire social accolades. The emperor's new clothes are beautiful.

It doesn't matter how many people downvote if I get a reaction like this. Have a great day, sir.

How do we increase intelligence over time? Purely mutational, or do you believe it can be passed down epigenetically similarly to weight?

I don't know whether we do increase in intelligence anymore there are problems that increase in the most intelligent populations that might put a limit on it. As to whether some part of intelligence can be accounted for with epigenetics I'd bet on it as it's a complex trait but you'd have to ask a researcher.

At least for now, we can still optimize information density and distribution. We stand on the shoulders of giants, but we need a way to get more people onto their shoulders so that someone else might stand on ours.

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