What If We Were All Smart?

Unlocking Humanity's Potential: The Genetic Intelligence Debate
Discover the futuristic world where intelligence is genetically engineered. But is it the solution to our problems? Uncover the truth and its profound impact on society!

[anonymousrex]

Everything I see from social media these days tells me that there are tons of people out there who THINK they are smart, but in reality they are pretty dumb. People need to remember that no matter how smart you may be (or how much evidence you have to show you are smart), no matter how much of an expert you may be in a particular field of study, you always have to have the mindset that you don't know it all and there is always someone out there who may be smarter or at least more educated in a particular topic than you are. There is a fine line between confidence and arrogance, which unfortunately gets crossed all too often.

[peterkirby]

We don't need to be genetically smarter, we just need more channels and videos from Fact Boy 😁

[SassyGirl]

There is also a strong correlation between high IQ and ADHD, as many with ADHD have fairly high IQ's. But this may be part of the 'jack of all trades' effect that ADHD can bring. The ability to absorb and apply information quickly on topics of interest, can lead to those with ADHD being very capable in several fields, but not really mastering any one skill.

[Varizen]

If you've ever spent any time in academia, around a lot of people working in research at universities, you'd known that most problems won't go away. At all the schools I went to and worked at... I have known plenty of professors who were bigots. That's not going away. In fact, a lot of smart people love to lord their intelligence over other people. Even if everyone's smart, those tiny differences where 1 person is even in the slightest a bit less smart will result in ridicule. In my earlier years in academia I'll admit I was high on the culture and bought into the hoity-toitiness, but the longer I went in, the more I brought myself back to earth, but holy shit, the people around me loved to think themselves better than everyone else. A lot of academic and researchers also think they know more about things in industries where they do research than the people who actually work there.

Also, as someone who has been to nerdy events like San Diego Comic Con and such... Just cause people are smart or nerdy doesn't mean they're clean. A lot of nerdy tournaments have to enforce hygiene standards due to how bad BO can get. I've had some of my highest performing students smell AWFUL. Studying and achieving in school consumed so much of their lives, they didn't bathe or wash their clothes. I had one student who had never gotten anything less than an A whose clothing always smelled stale and her teeth were rotting. Besides, how many Doctors has Simon talked about on Casual Criminalist who were known for smelling foul?

The idea that mental illness is more understood by smarter people is both true and false. What Simon says about it being more prevalent and talked about is true. Lots of people in my academic circles has issues and talked about it.... But there was still a Walk It Off mentality under the guise of caring and the higher ups saying you should take some time off.... Buuuut.... Then they'd throw more tight deadlines on you that HAD to be achieved if you wanted to finish your degree or in the case of junior faculty.... keep your job.

I also highly doubt crime would decrease that much.... SES still plays a part, but violent crime will still be there. There's PLENTY of insane academics. You still have high rates of stalking and murder with professors. The guy that murdered the 5 students last year is a good example. He was a Ph.D. student doing something in law, and I believe he was fairly high performing in the program? (I could be wrong there) There's also cases of one female professor trying to murder another female professor because one was in love with the other, and the other was married and barely knew the stalker existed. If everyone is smart.... Little will actually change. Or at least the problems will just change. But nothing will be entirely fixed.

[QBCPerdition]

Most of my family is very intelligent...at least one side of it is. However, that side also has a lot of addictive personality traits, meaning there has been a lot of drug use, some pretty hardcore religious nutjobbery (due to never feeling satisfied and looking for something to give their life meaning), and a general lack of follow through.

In fact, smart people are often the ones who are hardest to get to change their beliefs because they are very good at coming up with very smart seeming justifications for their beliefs.

[backcountry]

“Think of how stupid the average person is…and realize half of them are stupider than that.” - George Carlin

[Noah_E]

My G*d are those added noises irritating. Either eliminate them entirely or reduce them substantially.

[marktinsley]

Thank you for multiple videos a day from different channels got to get my whistler fix.

[Dr.Fluffles]

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley had this as a topic for one of the experimental islands. It was set up so everyone was a top-level genetic specimen, but the issue ended up being that no one would accept a perceived lesser role in terms of leadership, especially manual labor, which lead to conflict and social breakdown.

[hightierplayers]

A lot of people here need to read the entire "The Curse of the High IQ" if you want to understand this. Many are just parroting social media crap to cope with the fact they're dumb.

[vickiewallace]

I truly believe this is my favorite of all of your channels!
It is a great deal of fun. I learned something and I don’t always get full frontal Simon.

[Kevan]

I know people who are "smart" but lack common sense or social skills.

[squareballoons]

12:55 😂😂😂 My kids asked me ..why does that man have tiny arms😂

[truejim]

If you're smart, your goal in life should be to make the people around you feel smart, not dumb. If you're strong, your goal in life should be to make the people around you feel strong, not weak. If you're beautiful, your goal in life should be to make the people around you feel beautiful, not plain. That's why it's my goal in life to make all of you feel really well endowed.

[Jayjay-qeum]

"Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart." -- Alan Alda

[davidsalisbury]

It makes sense that intelligence comes from many genes, as the ability to process information and adapt to stimuli requires input from multiple sources. But the ability to evolve is far more important than 'being smart'

[julianaylor]

In a world of superheroes, only one man can help.... Bicycle Repair Man. ( Monty Python ) 😆

[zacharyhiland]

If dog breeding and the like teaches us anything, it is that it is pretty likely that almost anything can be influenced through genetics. But also that messing with genetics is SUPER LIKELY to cause serious health problems. We could have people be smart, or tall, or nice, or whatever... but you'd better watch out for their fragile bones, or high propensity for cancer or strokes or something. That stuff is super complicated.

[NotJimCarrey]

Every time I see the corner of your chair through the green screen, I think there's something on my monitor.
Seriously love almost all of your shit though dude and keep running across more channels all the time.

[ilionreactor]

Intelligence isn't absolute, it's relative. Being smart isn't nearly the advantage that being smartER is.