It’s not just a matter of pride—ISTM that people with very different IQs usually find each other boring (EDIT: see johnlawrenceaspden’s comment—his experience is pretty much the same as mine). Now if I have IQ 120 it doesn’t matter under this aspect whether the average IQ is 100 or 140, but if I had IQ 90, moving to a world where the average person has IQ 140 would mean that it’d be very hard for me to find suitable conversational partners, as everybody else would find me terribly stupid and uninteresting, and I would find everybody else hard to understand.
Changes made to future generations don’t deprive you of conversational partners less than 20 years younger than you. And they can invent ways to bring you up to their level.
Changes made to future generations don’t deprive you of conversational partners less than 20 years younger than you.
Changes don’t guarantee one conversational partners, either. Do you see very many current retarded adults hanging around their kid peers all day? For that matter, the elderly hang around their grandchildren and great-grandchildren in the modern world probably less than at any time in humanity’s history...
All I meant was that most of your friends, colleagues, and mates are not going to be 20+ years younger anyway, which limits the loss if it is hard to keep up with and understand some of the young whipper-snappers.
It’s not just a matter of pride—ISTM that people with very different IQs usually find each other boring (EDIT: see johnlawrenceaspden’s comment—his experience is pretty much the same as mine). Now if I have IQ 120 it doesn’t matter under this aspect whether the average IQ is 100 or 140, but if I had IQ 90, moving to a world where the average person has IQ 140 would mean that it’d be very hard for me to find suitable conversational partners, as everybody else would find me terribly stupid and uninteresting, and I would find everybody else hard to understand.
Changes made to future generations don’t deprive you of conversational partners less than 20 years younger than you. And they can invent ways to bring you up to their level.
Changes don’t guarantee one conversational partners, either. Do you see very many current retarded adults hanging around their kid peers all day? For that matter, the elderly hang around their grandchildren and great-grandchildren in the modern world probably less than at any time in humanity’s history...
All I meant was that most of your friends, colleagues, and mates are not going to be 20+ years younger anyway, which limits the loss if it is hard to keep up with and understand some of the young whipper-snappers.