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Do you think there would be less conflict in the world if the average intelligence went up 50%? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 69 points 4 months ago (4 children)

There are people that only think about making things better for themselves no matter how it effects others. These people would just use that "extra" intelligence to up their game. So no, I don't think there would be less conflict.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    I think part of the reason some of those people live that way is because they don't think through the effects of everyone else living their lives that way. Perhaps the stat boost to INT would give them the ability to follow that course of action to it's logical conclusion and therefore choose to live differently?

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Exactly. If you do nothing about greed and selfishness/narcissism then nothing changes, you just have smarter greedy people. :/

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Things like good public education make society more pleasant to live in for everyone including greedy opportunists and their families.

    Same with balancing resource extraction against environmental stability.

    What billionaires are doing seems totally illogical and self destructive even from a greed perspective.

    Even if we assume they’re thinking they can escape on a space ark it makes no sense to want to live in the cold, harsh, hostile environment of a space instead of on the one planet that we can naturally breathe on that also happens to grow delicious things and stuff.

    From no perspectives can this be a smart move, I refuse to believe it!

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