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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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