I’m glad you put this here. It got deleted while I was working on an answer on your IQ neutering question.
Ok, so everyone has established that the concept is evil.
Now that that’s settled, let’s hypothesize.
I looked up the percentile chart for IQ, and it’s probably not completely accurate, but it gives us somewhere to start.
So, you’ve made it so 97.7% of the current population cannot reproduce. That leaves 181.4 million potential parents.
The WHO estimates that one in 6 people experience infertility. That leaves us with 149.6 million potential parents. Roughly the population of Russia.
Of those who are naturally able to reproduce and passed your IQ test, only 30% of them are between the ages of 20-39. At any given time you’d have 45 million people who are at the age to have a child. Sure, you could go a little younger, or older, but we’re talking about a society of geniuses. They will be less likely to get knocked up in high school, or risk the potential effects of a geriatric pregnancy.
These people will be spread out across the whole world. So, let’s just assume they will be scattered equally throughout the 6 habitable continents. Australia would probably not have as many fertile geniuses as the entirety of Europe or Asia, they only have 26M total people as it is, so let’s just loop them in with nearby Asia and divide by 5.
Each continent now has about 9 million potential parents.
Let’s zoom in on North America, because that’s where I live, and the numbers work out well. North America is 9.5 million square miles. That works out to a little less than one fertile person per square mile.
You haven’t completely eliminated the less intelligent people, so our fertile geniuses will still be interacting with the “dummies”, and whether you like it or not, they will fall in love and not have children.
And I just realized we didn’t even count the 5-10% of people who are gay. They probably won’t be procreating much.
So, if you were lucky enough to pass the test, and wanted to start a family, you’d have to find one of the 1.5 million straight Members of the opposite sex scattered across the continent. And then one of you will have to uproot and move cross country just to be together, and it would probably help if you had some things in common or found each other attractive.
We’d never see the third generation. Humankind would die out before that happened.
I didn’t like that the only responses you got were “Oh my God that’s horrible! You can’t say such things!”
It is horrible, but horrible things happen. Let’s think out the scenario and see what happens. It took me a good 20 minutes to look up the numbers, do the math, and think of other obstacles you’d encounter.
I wanted to offer a theory with a little bit of thought and effort behind it. I finally got to share it and your only response is “Nah, we’d figure it out.”
If you’re going to present these wacky scenarios, (and yes, I have noticed your username attached to quite a few provocative questions lately) at least be willing to put some thought into it yourself. Tell me how “we can organize the smarties”.
If you want to have open thoughtful discussions about hypothetical situations, I think we should be able to do that, but if you just dismiss anyone who doesn’t think you just had a great idea, get out.
OP might maybe have had a shred of plausible deniability up until now as being someone edgy or wacky or whatever, or at best someone with a very active imagination. But that reply there pretty solidly confirms OP is just a downvote farmer.
Downvote and move on, no further point wasting any more of your brainpower on them.
I’m glad you put this here. It got deleted while I was working on an answer on your IQ neutering question.
Ok, so everyone has established that the concept is evil.
Now that that’s settled, let’s hypothesize.
I looked up the percentile chart for IQ, and it’s probably not completely accurate, but it gives us somewhere to start.
So, you’ve made it so 97.7% of the current population cannot reproduce. That leaves 181.4 million potential parents.
The WHO estimates that one in 6 people experience infertility. That leaves us with 149.6 million potential parents. Roughly the population of Russia.
Of those who are naturally able to reproduce and passed your IQ test, only 30% of them are between the ages of 20-39. At any given time you’d have 45 million people who are at the age to have a child. Sure, you could go a little younger, or older, but we’re talking about a society of geniuses. They will be less likely to get knocked up in high school, or risk the potential effects of a geriatric pregnancy.
These people will be spread out across the whole world. So, let’s just assume they will be scattered equally throughout the 6 habitable continents. Australia would probably not have as many fertile geniuses as the entirety of Europe or Asia, they only have 26M total people as it is, so let’s just loop them in with nearby Asia and divide by 5.
Each continent now has about 9 million potential parents.
Let’s zoom in on North America, because that’s where I live, and the numbers work out well. North America is 9.5 million square miles. That works out to a little less than one fertile person per square mile.
You haven’t completely eliminated the less intelligent people, so our fertile geniuses will still be interacting with the “dummies”, and whether you like it or not, they will fall in love and not have children.
And I just realized we didn’t even count the 5-10% of people who are gay. They probably won’t be procreating much.
So, if you were lucky enough to pass the test, and wanted to start a family, you’d have to find one of the 1.5 million straight Members of the opposite sex scattered across the continent. And then one of you will have to uproot and move cross country just to be together, and it would probably help if you had some things in common or found each other attractive.
We’d never see the third generation. Humankind would die out before that happened.
A minor logistical problem. We can organize the smarties. We’d have a breeding program.
Dude. This might be why your shit gets deleted.
I didn’t like that the only responses you got were “Oh my God that’s horrible! You can’t say such things!”
It is horrible, but horrible things happen. Let’s think out the scenario and see what happens. It took me a good 20 minutes to look up the numbers, do the math, and think of other obstacles you’d encounter.
I wanted to offer a theory with a little bit of thought and effort behind it. I finally got to share it and your only response is “Nah, we’d figure it out.”
If you’re going to present these wacky scenarios, (and yes, I have noticed your username attached to quite a few provocative questions lately) at least be willing to put some thought into it yourself. Tell me how “we can organize the smarties”.
If you want to have open thoughtful discussions about hypothetical situations, I think we should be able to do that, but if you just dismiss anyone who doesn’t think you just had a great idea, get out.
OP might maybe have had a shred of plausible deniability up until now as being someone edgy or wacky or whatever, or at best someone with a very active imagination. But that reply there pretty solidly confirms OP is just a downvote farmer.
Downvote and move on, no further point wasting any more of your brainpower on them.
I have a feeling that they wouldn’t meet their own reproductive criteria.
Dude probably thinks he’d be among the “smarties”