Comments on: Idiocracy: Could it Happen?

By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:51:53 +0000

Designer babies are soon going to be possible so we can to some extent increase intelligence artificially.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:02:32 +0000

Smarter men might get more play, but they’re also more likely to take the steps needed to avoid children. Studies demonstrate that iq and fertility are negatively correlated. One of the premises of the movie, that dumb people have way more children, is sound.

By: RT Wolf

RT Wolf — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:39:18 +0000

Hmm, you make a good point. Reminds me of something my cognitive science professor once said: we may be as intelligent as a complex organism of our design can be without going insane. Any more intelligent or complex and we reach the ceiling. Well, we’ll see what the future holds.

By: carter

carter — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:03:47 +0000

I like the post. On an interesting note about 3)

I find it hard to believe that people will be insanely clever in the future, I think we will gradually gain less intelligence over time, depending on external factors.

Like, back in the caveman era, we had a lot to learn, but our methods werent great for picking up knowledge. When we developed language etc… there was probably an increase there, and now our technology has been on the increase over the last 50 years par se, there may be a fluctuation there too. But I don’t think were always gaining the same amount of intelligence, anyway.