Thanks for the rare thoughtful reply, but the fallacy is, itself, a fallacy. IQ/g-factor/ability to reason about systems is unevenly distributed - and, critically, a zero-sum game. For every +2 SD IQ engineer devoted to making humans orgasm, there is one fewer +2 SD IQ engineer devoted to other pursuits, N% of which would have been positive for humanity's progress.
Unfortunately, you can't really get around this without heroic efforts to shift the bell curve to the right.
edit: Looks like I'm wrong again! Looking forward to HN pointing me to the magic fairy dust that miraculously conjures up raw intellectual talent from the ether.
Unfortunately, you can't really get around this without heroic efforts to shift the bell curve to the right.
edit: Looks like I'm wrong again! Looking forward to HN pointing me to the magic fairy dust that miraculously conjures up raw intellectual talent from the ether.