Why You Can’t Fly on The Concorde ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Book Review of At Our Wits’ End

Dec 29, 2023

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Have you ever wondered why you can't fly from New York to London on the supersonic Concorde? Why didn't we go back to the moon or colonize Mars?

This book makes the case that it's because we've hit peak intelligence as a civilization, that we're losing our wits and lack the smarts to accomplish anything really noteworthy.

3:00 We’re becoming less intelligent

5:45 Why is this controversial!

7:50 What is intelligence?

9:25 Is IQ a valid measure of intelligence?

17:17 Intelligence is heritable

25:37 Execution = civilization

27:00 What about the Flynn Effect?

32:22 Declining intelligence

38:04 Macro innovation vs micro innovation

40:15 Why is this happening?

42:20 Fertility vs intelligence

48:48 The welfare state

52:00 Cycles of civilization

56:56 "Love” - a dysgenic agent?

1:00:26 A silver lining…

1:04:04 Will transhumanism save us from the impending Idiocracy?

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