Is Idiocracy Coming? Genetics, IQ, & Realistic Outcomes

Join Malcolm and Simone Collins as they explore the controversial and alarming trend of declining IQ scores worldwide. This thought-provoking discussion delves into:

* The reality of the "reverse Flynn effect" and its implications

* Genetic factors influencing IQ and their correlation with fertility rates

* The potential consequences of declining average intelligence on society and governance

* The role of AI in mitigating or exacerbating these trends

* Ethical considerations surrounding genetic selection and societal stratification

* The future of human intelligence and potential solutions to the crisis

Whether you're a genetics enthusiast, concerned citizen, or simply curious about the future of human cognition, this video offers a balanced and data-driven perspective on one of the most pressing issues of our time.

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IQ is dropping by about 0. 2 points annually in some regions.

This may seem like a trivial decline,

but when you consider the standard deviation of IQ is 15 points, such a decline is sustained will lead to a drop by one standard deviation every 75 years. Should this trend hold in those regions [00:01:00] in just 125 years, your average human will have an IQ that would today qualify someone as intellectually disabled.

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Hello, Simone. It is wonderful to be speaking with you today. Today, we are going to be asking the question. Is an idiocracy style future true?

Is the IQ of humanity declining over time? I have read in one of our comments, they're like, well, you know, this person thinks that you IQ is , declining over time. And we stay away from a lot of the controversial genetic stuff. However, this is the one controversial genetics topic where I'm like, People really need to be realistic about the data.

Well, yeah, it's, it's just the data in this is so loud and from so many different angles and it will create real problems from society if we try to ignore this or pretend it's not happening. So, I mean, I'm just going to start with a recent study that I saw that was like, okay, yeah, we got to be taking this [00:02:00] seriously.

So, this study shows that the mean IQ of U. S. college students has been dropping by 0. 2 points per year since the mid 20th century. And this phenomenon has been well documented in many sources and it's called the reverse Flynn effect. Historically, you had something called the Flynn effect, where all around the world, IQ was increasing they're pretty much every year.

And the reason why you had the Flynn effect was because nutrition was increasing. But once nutritional needs as they relate to brain development saturated in the human population then dysgenics appears to be the primary cause that IQ was going down. But we'll get into this in more detail with lots of citations for this one, because I'm actually going to be going to a quote.

From our book. So we're going to read a little passage from the book, The Pragmatist Guide to Crafting Religion and go over it. All right. Are we destined to become a society reminiscent of the nightmarish dystopia depicted in the film [00:03:00] Idiocracy,

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Well, don't want to sound like a dick or nothing, but, uh, it says on your chart that you're fucked up.

Uh, you talk like a fag, and your s**t's all retarded. What I do is just, like, you know, like, you know what I mean? Don't worry, Skrull. There are plenty of tards out there living really kick ass lives. My first wife was tarded. She's a pilot now. We mostly steer clear of fearful discourse about genetic selection against high IQ and dropping IQs in general because it is such a charged topic and our concerns around demographic collapse stand regardless of this scenario's potential. We only approach this philosophical third rail in order to dispel some common misconceptions.

IQ has a high level of genetic correlation and can be predicted by looking at a person's genome. So I have a citation here. If you want to go through all of these citations, I'll just mention when I run across the citation just, Get the [00:04:00] book. It's like a dollar on Amazon and it'll have all the citations listed.

This is in the appendix. The association between genetics and IQ is not small. In fact, this meta study argues the IQ correlation between adopted brothers and sisters, genetically unrelated people raised together, falls almost to zero in adulthood. Again, another citation. No, we think this meta study might be overstating the correlation a little.

Suffice it to say that There is very little argument in the scientific community over whether there is some genetic correlation in IQ. They debate things like how big that correlation is, whether that link is concentrated in specific ethnicities.

Which we spend an entire chapter of this book arguing against, whether IQ is a measure of what we mean when we talk about intelligence in the vernacular, a topic we won't go into here, do your own research, and whether the genes associated with IQ are stable in the population or declining, which we will focus on in this chapter.

For those who are not up to date with what is [00:05:00] an quote unquote offensive position in the scientific consensus, we encourage you to read the Wikipedia page on this subject. So the point that I'm making here is that It is so commonly accepted that IQ is a genetic thing that there is a Wikipedia page on this topic.

Or at least there was when I wrote the book. Who knows? It could have been scrubbed by lefties by now. But We're pretty sure the people who turn a blind eye to the role genetics plays in privilege will be held in the same regard as those who claim they quote unquote didn't see race in the 1990s.

Acting as though none of your partially inherited traits gave you systemic advantages over others, Be they height, metabolism, attractiveness, or IQ, only serves to reinforce your unearned privilege and ultimately breeds more systemic inequality. To be extremely clear, we refer to these two instances in relation to each other because each represents an assumed moral high ground through feigned blindness to systemic advantages one has over others.

We are not suggesting that any of these things are linked to race. Multiple studies have demonstrated that IQ is dropping by about 0. [00:06:00] 2 points annually in some regions. Oh, you see, it's been held up by more recent research. Though, the U. S. seems more resistant to this than other nations.

This may seem like a trivial decline,

but when you consider the standard deviation of IQ is 15 points, such a decline is sustained will lead to a drop by one standard deviation every 75 years. Should this trend hold in those regions in just 125 years, your average human will have an IQ that would today qualify someone as intellectually disabled.

Note, while our timelines are probably off, it is highly unlikely that we are wrong about the general trend. Quote, So here I'm pretending to be one of our the detractors. But IQ is not a good measure of intelligence. We too find it tedious and often misleading to focus so heavily on IQ.

That said, while there is plenty of research separating out IQ from intelligence, we are the last people to pedestalize it, carrying far more [00:07:00] about initiativ