Quote from: RE on Nov 08, 2023, 08:18 AM

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Quote from: moniker on Nov 07, 2023, 05:17 PM4. American don't need to learn as they have been earmarked for extinction.

So who is not so earmarked?  Can't be the Chinese, Indians, Russians, Japanese, Italians Swedes, Germans, Turks, Greeks, Mexicans or Palestinians.  South Africans?  Maybe Elon Musk can single handedly save his homeland from depopulating.

Quote from: RE on Nov 08, 2023, 08:18 AMThat would be the thought process of a High IQ type, operating under the assumption stuff needs to be invented.  Except nothing does need to be invented.  Any device useful in a low available energy future has already been invented.  The 5 basic machines of wheel and axle, pulley, inclined plane, screw, wedge and lever and their combinations and applications are pretty much all you need on an engineering level.  Knowledge of materials like how to work ston, bone, sinew and wood.  Building materials like adobe and clay.  etc, etc, etc, all stuff that's already been figured out long ago.  Anybody with a decent IQ can learn this stuff, so I don't see any real need for High IQ types in the future, unless they are willing to do the grunt work everybody else has to do, and not get more fish or nicer teepees, and especially not conspicuous consumption of A-List Vaginas because they use their high IQs to manipulate the property owwnership system to become filthy rich scum sucking bottom feeders.

RE

That would be the thought process of a High IQ type, operating under the assumption stuff needs to be invented.  Except nothing does need to be invented.  Any device useful in a low available energy future has already been invented.  The 5 basic machines of wheel and axle, pulley, inclined plane, screw, wedge and lever and their combinations and applications are pretty much all you need on an engineering level.  Knowledge of materials like how to work ston, bone, sinew and wood.  Building materials like adobe and clay.  etc, etc, etc, all stuff that's already been figured out long ago.  Anybody with a decent IQ can learn this stuff, so I don't see any real need for High IQ types in the future, unless they are willing to do the grunt work everybody else has to do, and not get more fish or nicer teepees, and especially not conspicuous consumption of A-List Vaginas because they use their high IQs to manipulate the property owwnership system to become filthy rich scum sucking bottom feeders.

RE

Grunt work can be good for these folks if they get caught up in overthinking.