Now this is getting silly. Given how often they—and they know exactly who I mean—praise their own intelligence, reference their IQ, claim to be simply smarter – and yet you read such nonsensical claims that IQ is not important.
Which is nonsense, given how some of the most common insults consist in
refering to someone as idiot, imbecile, retard etc. I.e., someone of low
intelligence. Only ugliness, calling someone ugly, comes close.
Who would want to have a dumb child? Would you want to be the idiot in class?
The dumb guy who never gets anything? I am that guy, and it’s torture.
(Besides being a mentally ill and ugly hunchbacked piece of crap, living
at the bottom of society, scum and useless trash.)
Why did 23andme refrain from sending their customers their IQ score – no matter how immature the technology still is? Because intelligence (IQ) matters. And they know it. They often even—rightly—point to the declining intelligence levels of the West.
Would you trade IQ points for anything? Height? Which you lose to some extent in old age anyway, and is of little use. I cannot imagine what anyone would want to trade IQ for, given that intelligence is the one thing you will at least keep in old age, except if you are afflicted with suffering from Alzheimer’s and so on. It is what all the wise men, what great thinkers like Schopenhauer so often emphasized.