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Re:Why you, personally, should want a larger human population by d0gsg0w00f on Sunday February 25, 2024 @10:01AM (#39501300)
Also no mention of the outlier downsides. More research geniuses also means more psychopaths and rapists. The question is whether one's positives outweigh the other's negatives.
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Re:Why you, personally, should want a larger human population by silverquiet on Sunday February 25, 2024 @10:08AM (#39501348)
What about a genius-psychopath rapist? (Have to be careful of the grammar there because I want to be clear that I mean a rapist who is also a genius and psychopath, not a genius who targets psychopath rapists).

I kid, but a lot of the top Nazis were geniuses by IQ; I don't know that there's any reason to believe that virtue and genius are correlated, which is only one of the reasons I think this whole conversation is a bit goofy. It honestly feels like yet another weirdo billionaire rationalization for why the line must always go up.

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