https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/iq-rates-are-dropping-many-developed-countries-doesn-t-bode-ncna1008576

Even the mainstream is acknowledging that intelligence is declining in most of the world. My view of intelligence and genes have been the following:

Your genes give you a ceiling for intelligence. You have a potential IQ and a real IQ. Your biology determines your potential IQ. You may have a potential IQ of 120. It means, that if your receive the proper nurture, i.e good food in childhood, exercise, and cognitively stimulating activities, by the time your 25(this is the age where the brain fully develops) or before, you will have an iq of 120.

You will never exceed this, however, no matter how much you study. If studying and reading made continuously someone smarter, then every medical student would be a Newton or von Neumann.

It also provides a floor of some sort. A person with a potential IQ of 120, will never fall below a certain threshold. He won't be a smart person with 120, but he'll at most be an average person with a 100-105 IQ. Injuries to the head or accidents or some trauma might reduce it further of course, but those are outside the purview of this discussion. The point is that he'll never be a retard to who eats hair gel or applies gorilla glue to their hair.

My guess is this where the Flynn effect comes from. In the 20th century, IQ greatly increased, by as much as 15 points across developed and developing countries. This is owed to better nutrition ala more protein in youth, and a standard education system.

People in these countries have been boosted to their maximum genetic potential. However, the genetic potential itself has been decreasing for some time now. It's estimated that the highest intelligence ever in a human society was Victorian-era North-Western Europe(Barring France). They most likely had an average genetic potential of 125 IQ.

This was the result of 1000 years of eugenic breeding, starting with the birth of Western civilization in 800 AD with the crowning of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor. In these 1000 years, in every generation, the upper third of the population outbred and replaced the lower two-thirds. The Catholic church's ban on cousin marriage removed maladaptive effects further and in every generation, the top 1% of violent men were executed.

Now ofc, very few met this as life in the Victorian era was horrible for the average people. Nutrition was terrible, education was rare and poverty was endemic. In fact, even as late as 1940, there were people in Britain so poor that they couldn't afford a 2nd pair of pants...

So, as a whole, people became smarter in the 20th century with the onset of the economic boom, the 2nd agricultural revolution, and mass education. However, their genetic potential has been decreasing for some time now, owing to dysgenic breeding.

The aristocratic and rich bourgeois have been practicing contraception for more than a century now, being constantly outbred by the lower IQ working classes. In France, this dysgenic process started even earlier in the 18th century because it was the first country in history to adopt liberalism and secularism on a wide scale.

Among the Western Euros, Germany and the Nordic countries were perhaps the last to phase into dysgenic breeding, owing to greater religiosity among the elites and eugenic laws. German intellectual superiority was plain for all to see from 1871 to 1945. They won more Nobel prizes in Physics and Chemistry than any other nation. In just 30 years, they went from being a largely agricultural society to being the world's second-largest industrial power.

This intellectual superiority translated into military excellence as well. Even its worst detractors had to admit that the German military was second to none in quality and efficiency in both world wars. Coming to the cusp of victory against the entire world despite being short of resources and manpower.

Modern warfare is a very cognitively demanding task, and the superior intelligence of the German soldier shined in both wars. In ww2, in offense and defense, the Germans had an advantage of 25% combat efficiency than the British and Americans, and a 50%! advantage over the Soviets. Though in fairness to the Russians, it was largely a third-world country in 1941 and the great purge had decimated its officer corps and the earlier purges had destroyed Russian intelligentsia.

Thus, average reaction times are longer among the brits now than it was during the Victorian era.

Now, what does this have to do with civilization falling?

Well, first of all, is scientific achievement. The rate of scientific advancement would've slowed down even without dysgenics. It's because the easier fruits have already been picked. It's far easier to lay down the laws of magnetism and than to decipher why time moves forward or bodies have a mass, to begin with.

It's far easier to build an airplane that can go at Mach 1 than to build a spacecraft that can travel to Mars.

The more tech progresses, the harder and harder it becomes for us to decipher the remaining mysteries. How does one solve the problem of interstellar travel, the Newtonian dynamics-related problems, and time dilation or achieve FTL travel? It simply might not be possible, or it could require intelligence beyond our physical limitations.

There certainly must be a thermodynamic limit to smart a human can become. The brain, after all, is only 3% of the body's weight but consumes 20% of the energy.

But how about sustaining civilization?

You need intelligence for that as well. One only needs to look at Africa. The Belgians, French and British left them with modern medicine, railways, and infrastructure. Yet, these things have collapsed within a decade or two of them leaving the continent.

The blacks simply lack the intelligence to even maintain a civilization, forget advancing one. The reason Africa as a whole isn't descending into mass famine and cannibalism is because more intelligent races like Jews, WASPs and Chinese are propping these countries up.

Africa mind you, receives a whopping 130 billion dollars in aid every year. Imagine what could've been achieved if this money had been used for something productive like researching nuclear fusion, electromagnetic propulsion, or prosthetics. Yet, it's dumped into the bottomless basket known as Africa, disappearing forever into the void.

Similarly, in the US, we have seen countless trillions, beyond count at this point, go towards black communities, providing them with everything from free housing to unemployment, maternal assistance, healthcare, etc. The bill easily extends into the tens of trillions ever since LBJ's great society project.

You can see a similar effect in India, where a minority of high caste Hindus maintain civilization for a vast australoid mass. High IQ Chinese are the reason why Malaysia has near first-world life standards.

But what happens when this dumbing down takes place across the planet? What if the entire world undergoes dysgenics to a point where they can't even maintain the existing tech they have?

If anything, even maintaining existing tech nowadays is much harder than in the Victorian era. An engineer at that time only had to maintain steam run machines and steel-made tools.

Today, just to maintain a nuclear plant, an engineer has to study for 6 years and master a dizzying amount of topics ranging from mathematics to physics, thermodynamics, mechanical engineering, and so on.

What happens when the whole planet's IQ falls to 85 or something of that sort? At that time, there simply will be too few smart people to even sustain civilization, notwithstanding the network effect. After all, a 100 IQ civilization will be far more conducive to the cultivation and proper utilization of intellect than an 85 IQ one that doesn't even understand the knowledge and thus can't appreciate it.

You can see this in Sam Harris's famous quip that every year more books are translated into Spanish in Spain than has been in the entirety of the Arab world throughout its history. And even those books are probably mostly religious. Spain being a more intelligent nation has a more robust academic environment in which the rare genius can go and flourish.

In 70 IQ Africa, surely some geniuses are born, even considering that 1 in 100,000 Africans born in the continent are Genuises, they should still have 12,000 or so black geniuses. Statistically speaking, they certainly have more geniuses than Switzerland and should produce more intellectually than the tiny country of 8 million. Its because a society of 105 IQ Swiss are more likely to appreciate intelligence, create systems where knowledge is stored and studied, and hold the genius to greater esteem.

Yet, the inverse is true. The lilliput nation in the alps has contributed magnitudes more to human accomplishment than the massive continent of Africa.

In a 70 IQ society, even a genius probably just plows the farms all day, if not berated by his peers for ''acting white''. This is true in 85 IQ(I find this questionable) Black American society.

Thus, logically, civilization should collapse and a new dark age will unfold. That is the road we are headed to right now. In every single country with no exception, the dull are vastly outbreeding the intelligent as the women of intelligence spend their fertile years studying and chasing a career. In contrast, the dingus jenny gets knocked up at 18 and leaves 5 or 7 by the time she's 40.

In China, the smart people go to cities where they have fertilities of below 1, while the dim remain in the villages with near replacement fertility. In Germany, half the scientists are childless. In Japan, a quarter of the population lives in Tokyo, and certainly all the ambitious ones. There they have fertility below 1 while the simpler village peasant breeds more. Large cities effectively act as IQ shredders. They take in the finest stock of the nation and place them in a fertility society due to feminism, hypergamy, extreme living costs, and the rat race of the ''free market''.

Whites in America, Brahmins in India, Germans in Brazil, Chinese in Malaysia...the list goes on. In every country, the best populations waste themselves away in material pursuits. There is a strong inverse correlation between a woman's education and her fertility. The more educated she is, the fewer children she will have by the time she's 45.

Then there's the Africanization factor. Birth rates are collapsing worldwide yet remain sky high in Sub-Saharan Africa. The liberal establishment heavily promotes miscegenation with blacks. Pornography and media portray the black man as a heroic demigod of sorts. One only needs to look at Northern Brazil to see where this leads.

So, the world does seem to be heading for a great reset. A scenario in which intelligence falls to a stage where civilization can no longer be maintained. Then it collapses and mankind is returned to Darwinian selection. Hopefully, this time they can avoid the plague of Jewry and liberalism.

However, there is a catch. In one scenario, the intellect of mankind could collapse to Africa tier but see civilization and its tyranny continue. The emergence of the machine God.

Already we see vast automation in every sphere. By 2035 or 2040, there won't be any physical labor left. All will be left to machines that are far more efficient. But what if this goes even further?

Some cognitively taxing but repetitive jobs like cashiers will also soon be automated. We already have AI that censors speech, autonomous drones that engage military targets at will, and runs the stock market. How long before algorithms and AI evolves to a stage where they can simply manage industries and supply chains on their own and distributes goods and services to the population as needed?

An AI-run machine army can easily police any population. An AI-run military could turn out to be more efficient than any human force. DARPA recently created an AI that was able to defeat a US air force ace pilot in a simulated dogfight with the F-16.

It's possible that an AI/algorithm-run society could maintain civilization near indefinitely. Yes, it can't advance civilization any further, but it can maintain existing society. The entire population could be barely human negroes with 70 IQ who sit around listening to rap and eating watermelons all day, and civilization could still continue.

The trains would be maintained and run on time by algorithms. Drones would maintain law and order according to programming, industries would run according to algorithms, goods would be delivered according to needs, all could be orchestrated by a central AI, a machine god so to speak. Most of the technology already exists to some extent, the only limitation is the required bandwidth and public resistance.

The strides in quantum computing increasingly seek to make this a reality. Already, an AI owned by Goldman Sachs runs the NYSE, the world's largest stock exchange, an enterprise of unfathomable complexity.

If this is the case, are we doomed to an eternal hell? One in which this rotten civilization is artificially propped up forever and not allowed to collapse and return to Darwinian selection?

I see this as essentially a race against time. Will humans grow dumb to a critical threshold before the machine god emerges? or will the machine god emerge first and become an eternal babysitter?

Where will God's dice fall?