Our living conditions are in extraordinary mismatch with our psychology. We can increase human flourishing by selecting for emotional intelligence and other newly important traits
The problem is that embryo selection, especially for this stuff, is mostly going to be done by high IQ populations in western countries, and doing this is basically going to make people more likely to support immigration policies that brings in the exact opposite of high IQ, emotionally intelligent, compassionate etc people (i.e. brings in people with more 'stone age psychology'), which makes this stuff self-defeating in the long run.
Well if people learn electronics (like me), they can (and surely will) be on alert for non-compliant products (which are everywhere since the China/Taiwan floodgates were opened). 😎 Here's just a sampling of what the authorities haven't caught (and some items are so widespread that it's only feasible to list them categorically, not individually): http://www.hardwareinsights.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=2279
That aside, I fully agree that “clinical” traits are often a function of degree more than kind; and some even have situations where they're advantageous. Even if we don't limit it to what's clinically diagnosed, certain personality traits may lend themselves to particular jobs (I have a sneaking suspicion that IT, for example, selects cold unemotional people because being cold and unemotional is the only way to endure the rage-inducing effects of badly-programmed software 😈); maybe you can think of a few other occupations which benefit from otherwise-negative personality traits.
I thought Emotional Intelligence is considered woo or at least very hard to study.
Like your graphics.
The problem is that embryo selection, especially for this stuff, is mostly going to be done by high IQ populations in western countries, and doing this is basically going to make people more likely to support immigration policies that brings in the exact opposite of high IQ, emotionally intelligent, compassionate etc people (i.e. brings in people with more 'stone age psychology'), which makes this stuff self-defeating in the long run.
Well if people learn electronics (like me), they can (and surely will) be on alert for non-compliant products (which are everywhere since the China/Taiwan floodgates were opened). 😎 Here's just a sampling of what the authorities haven't caught (and some items are so widespread that it's only feasible to list them categorically, not individually): http://www.hardwareinsights.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=2279
That aside, I fully agree that “clinical” traits are often a function of degree more than kind; and some even have situations where they're advantageous. Even if we don't limit it to what's clinically diagnosed, certain personality traits may lend themselves to particular jobs (I have a sneaking suspicion that IT, for example, selects cold unemotional people because being cold and unemotional is the only way to endure the rage-inducing effects of badly-programmed software 😈); maybe you can think of a few other occupations which benefit from otherwise-negative personality traits.