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
There is plenty of woo treatment but this is in part because of the latter. I'm planning a post where I argue EQ > IQ. IQ doesn't have great theory surrounding it, while EQ does. Meanwhile IQ is easy to measure, but EQ is not. This at least leaves EQ underrated.
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.
Look at a country like Sweden. The country is the progressive ideal, but their progressiveness (which can be thought of compassion as a political ideology) has led them to bring in large numbers of immigrants from Africa and the Middle East. These immigrants do not share the progressiveness of native Swedes, they commit a literal majority of crime in Sweden, ESPECIALLY sexual assaults, and they all around make the things that make Sweden a nice place to live less of a thing. Perhaps the most feminist country in the world has a rape problem, consider the absolute insanity of this from a liberal perspective. But the reason is exactly what I said to begin with - their compassion led them into supporting self-destructive immigration policies. And this is all without systematic embryo selection for compassion - with it, I could imagine Swedes just directly offing themselves to atone for being racist or something.
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.
There is plenty of woo treatment but this is in part because of the latter. I'm planning a post where I argue EQ > IQ. IQ doesn't have great theory surrounding it, while EQ does. Meanwhile IQ is easy to measure, but EQ is not. This at least leaves EQ underrated.
Wrote about it here: https://www.vectorsofmind.com/p/eq-iq
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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.
Can you elaborate on this? What immigration policies do you imagine being implemented, and why would people support them?
Look at a country like Sweden. The country is the progressive ideal, but their progressiveness (which can be thought of compassion as a political ideology) has led them to bring in large numbers of immigrants from Africa and the Middle East. These immigrants do not share the progressiveness of native Swedes, they commit a literal majority of crime in Sweden, ESPECIALLY sexual assaults, and they all around make the things that make Sweden a nice place to live less of a thing. Perhaps the most feminist country in the world has a rape problem, consider the absolute insanity of this from a liberal perspective. But the reason is exactly what I said to begin with - their compassion led them into supporting self-destructive immigration policies. And this is all without systematic embryo selection for compassion - with it, I could imagine Swedes just directly offing themselves to atone for being racist or something.
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.