Why highly intelligent people suffer from more mental and physical disorders

Re:Why highly intelligent people suffer from more mental and... by anothernewdude on Sunday March 06, 2022 @03:58PM (#30581200)

If whatever genetic feature that has made someone more intelligent didn't come with downsides, then we would expect it to be more prevalent in the population.

Excepting any that have only recently arisen, but I'd assume those to be rare.

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Re:Why highly intelligent people suffer from more mental and... by explodingman on Sunday March 06, 2022 @04:33PM (#30581476)

Only if intelligence leads to greater fitness in the Darwinian sense. Don't confuse higher socio-economic status with Darwinian fitness. Plenty of people of quite modest intelligence and limited achievement are successfully passing their genes on to the next generation.

Recommended reading: The Marching Morons by Cyril Kornbluth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons

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Re:Why highly intelligent people suffer from more mental and... by ptsneves on Monday March 07, 2022 @05:26AM (#30586117)

Ding ding. The reason I love hn!

Never heard of that book and from the wiki entry it sounds amazing and hopefully not prescient.

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Re:Why highly intelligent people suffer from more mental and... by nameisname on Sunday March 06, 2022 @07:32PM (#30582744)

It's got what plants crave.

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