Quote from: 18hammers on Nov 28, 2023, 09:28 AMI am for a good depopulation, where is that button to press! Far to many stupid meat sack's around.

Well,  50% of the Meatsacks populating the planet are always below average intelligence, by definition.  That never changes no matter how many stupid people you kill off. lol.

Now, just for argument sake, say we pulled Thanos out of the MCU to snap his fingers while wearing the glove with all 6 Infinity Stones and instantly vaporize everybody with an IQ below 100.  With Earth's new population of 4B people, the median score is again 100, by definition.  Just it is a smarter 100 than the prior test done with 8B people.  It is not clear however if either 100 score is smart enough to eliminate stupidity.

From my own admittedly skewed perspective, I have found just about everyone I ever met with an IQ of 100 to be pretty stupid. Starting around 110, I find some people who are not stupid, they just don't test well.  At 120, about half of them are smart, then about half are stupid but test well.  Starting around 130, you rarely find a stupid person who can generate a score that high.  At 140, everybody is smart, unequivocally.  You just can't generate a score that high without being very smart.  So, if I was doing eugenics based depopulation selecting for smart people and making absolutely sure no stupid people sneak in and stay alive, I would probably put the cutoff score at 135.  That is exactly the 99th percentile score, coincidentally.  1% of the population makes the cut for eliminating human stupidity.  Fortunately for me, I make the cut with plenty of room to spare.  ;D  That would cut the population from 8B to 80M, and would be a really roomy earth where everybody could have a nice big chunk of land to live H-G, Permaculture, or techno Aquaponics powered by all renewable energy, your choice of Xanadu.

All that being said, stupidity isn't the proximal problem with the population of Homo Saps right now, it's demographics.  Way too many old folks, too few children and too few homo saps of breeding age.  So, if you were to bring in Thanos for a genocide based solely on age distribution, he should snap his fingers and vaporize everyone above the age of 40.  That knocks off 3B people and allows you to reset social security and medicare liabilities to 0.

Ideally for me, all men with an IQ below 135 and all women above age 40 should be vaporized by Thanos.  8)

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