Lex speaking about being uncomfortable about knowing some people are more intelligent than others:<br>Lex, imagine a world where we can see how tall people are, and where we know that tall people have intrinsic advantages in life specifically because of their height, and small people have intrinsic disadvantages because of their lack of height.....imagine a world like that. (Hint: that's the world we live in).<br>So, what do we do? Move to a VR world where height is irrelevant? Design robot helpers to mitigate some of those disadvantages (though you can't mitigate that women prefer tall men and that successful politicians are rarely short).<br>Or do we start stretching small people? Or cutting bits of tall people?<br>I don't yet know if this talk touches on this, but the entire raceIQ question on immigration is that ethnic IQ is a thing, and democracy requires a certain group IQ minimum to function. Importing massive low IQ ethnic groups to a democracy can simply destroy that democracy.,(reply>), @Miff Naw,(reply>), @Nathan Peirce the correlation between dictator states and ethnic IQ is very strong.,(reply>), @aaa bbb there's no such thing as "race based IQ tests",(reply>), @Miff Yeah, I know what regression to the mean is, but you totally missed the point of me saying they're "plenty smart".<br><br>You said "Importing massive low IQ ethnic groups to a democracy can simply destroy that democracy."<br><br>My point is, that's not a real thing. There's no ethnic group like that existing in the world. The differences at that scale that aren't temporary, are far too minor to endanger democracy.<br><br>But your misconception and worry points out exactly what's wrong with doing this kind of research. There's no gain from it, and inevitably LOTS of people make mistakes of scale because, well, people didn't evolve to understand matters of scale very well.,(reply>), @Nathan Peirce do you know what regression to the mean is?<br>The grandchildren of those smart immigrants are not smart.<br>Also, you've just drained struggling countries of thier most smart people. Is that wise?