Dress for the job

The glasses are nothing, he proposed to his wife on Reddit.

I usually read the articles linked in Lemmy but I haven't managed to bring myself to read the whole of this one. It's utter lunacy, linked (of course) to the EA and the cult of Yudkowsky.

Apparently the Wikipedia for The Collins is also an endless source of crazy.

Not very elite as they don't seem to understand genetics and the statistical finding of regression towards the mean.

Essentially their children are more likely to be less intelligent and talented than them. Its not a certainty of course, just a statistical observation. But you can't game evolution and genetics as they are attempting to doing. Its a population wide process.

Human genetics are very complex and different combinations of genes give different outcomes. A combination of genes expressed in one parent is not going to be repeated in their child as there is a newnmix woth 50% different genes.

There is no guarentee that their new genes combinations will be beneficial and on average its more likely their traits will yield patterns that regress closer to the population mean than a new extreme with higher intelligence or more creativity or taller children. It can happen of course, but mating to merge disirable traits in one generation isn't going to be effective.

And Horse Husbandry or Dog breeding is a multi generational process requiring direction, and has many many discarded gene lines along the way. It can work but it is an extended process and literally is at a population level, even if a small population.

So basically these people are not as intelligent as they think and are making life choices based off dodgy genetic ground. They'd be better off finding people they like rather than people they want to breed with. But maybe they have still found a good love match because they share their outlook and life philosophy even if its silly. I just feel sorry for the kids who may not be able to live up to their parents expectations.

FYI previous discussions here about the Collins couple (there's no quota or anything, just if you want to read more comments):

https://awful.systems/post/1587716

https://awful.systems/comment/5375791

Brainstorm session! How do we make the world a better place, being people that are motivated and live comfortable lives?

Do we help the needy? Do we use our influence to band together with our similarly-advantaged peers to change politics to make life easier for the disadvantaged? Do we use our able bodies to do volunteer work? Do we live minimalist lives and take only what we need?

Wrong, we pump out as many kids as possible!

• the Collinses

Eugenics where you try to optimize for high self esteem so that future generations no longer need stupid excuses to justify their breeding kink.

While googling around for stuff about them I found this article about a sting Hope Not Hate did on them. They produced a slideshow of doom for a fictional wealthy investor, imagining a proposed eugenicist city state on the Isle of Man.

What is it with these people and islands? Bankman-Fried wanted to buy Nauru. I assume none of them realize the inherent economic and planning disadvantages of building your empire on a tiny island....

‘It became clear to me that people wanted more children than they were having,’ Babu says.

So clearly the best action is to constantly tell everyone how great kids are and that they should totally have them. Because that solves the problem of people wanting kids they don't/can't have. I try to read even our designated sneer fodder in good faith but I can't understand why anyone thinks these people are at all intelligent beyond the "only slightly less than average" level. I thought Good Will Hunting taught everyone the difference between smart and rich, but maybe that was just me.