#2 2008-06-05 04:22:20
Your basic premise is flawed. Evolution goes with whatever works. If stupidity results in more offspring surviving to adulthood and producing offspring themselves, stupidity will be selected for. Current conditions favor the stupid who produce large numbers of offspring, so stupidity is being selected for. There’s no proof the stupid were specially created.
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#3 2008-06-05 08:38:50
Does society reinforce the stupid by catering to the lowest common denominator, or do the stupid mass together and breed, making society more stupid? It's a bit of a platypus and the egg problem.
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#4 2008-06-05 09:05:11
GooberMcNutly wrote:
Does society reinforce the stupid by catering to the lowest common denominator, or do the stupid mass together and breed, making society more stupid? It's a bit of a platypus and the egg problem.
No it isn't. The stupid breed, and the predatory feed.
Within what I'm assuming is your own context, read Claude C. Hopkins. Hopkins told advertisers and copywriters to aim low, at the stupid people. He was right, and his instance on measurement proved his intellection. It's easier and more profitable to sell a million gidgets (like widgets, only more annoying) to a million stupid people, than a single gidget to a sole person of intelligence. Aiming low became an obsession. It helped to make America what it is today.
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#5 2008-06-05 12:59:13
fnord wrote:
Your basic premise is flawed. Evolution goes with whatever works. If stupidity results in more offspring surviving to adulthood and producing offspring themselves, stupidity will be selected for. Current conditions favor the stupid who produce large numbers of offspring, so stupidity is being selected for. There’s no proof the stupid were specially created.
Ah. Thank you for the clarification.
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#6 2008-06-05 16:51:12
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#7 2008-06-05 17:16:51
Nice one, Phoq.
Looking at the squawman on the cover of the mockmag gives me the fucking heebie jeebies.
Speaking strictly, does the r, K distinction apply within a single species?
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#8 2008-06-05 17:31:13
Wilber wrote:
Speaking strictly, does the r, K distinction apply within a single species?
Come to East Oakland and see for yourself, or just ask Fnord.
Multiple offspring- Check
Mature rapidly - Check
Most never reach maturity - Check
Little investment in offspring - Check
Invade other areas - Check and double Check
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#9 2008-06-05 17:48:03
WilberCunLickler wrote:
Speaking strictly, does the r, K distinction apply within a single species?
You got me. However, the species concept is useless for microorganisms and IMHO increasingly irrelevant for macro fauna. Since reproductive isolation is allegedly one of its hallmarks, it is arguable that speciation is always ongoing. Given a choice, would you fuck a morlock or Homo Superior? 
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#10 2008-06-05 17:56:54
Hmmm...Morlock or Ubermensch...Morlock or Ubermensch...do they both take it up the shitter?
Actually, it appears from the five minutes of research I just did that many species display
both r & K, which means, of course, that Phreddy (or was that Fled...I get those two
confused...hmmm...perhaps Fled is Preddy's Chinese persona...) is right about Oakland.
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#11 2008-06-06 09:51:22
I couldn't give a frying fruck in a rolling donut about evolution. What about devolution?
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#12 2008-06-06 20:47:57
GooberMcNutly wrote:
What about devolution?
They are not men.
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#13 2008-06-07 00:39:36
I'll just reiterate my proposal that teenagers only be allowed motorcycles, not cars, as individual transport, and no helmets. We aging boomers will need those transplantable, healthy organs, and soon.
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#14 2008-06-08 06:35:18
phoQ wrote:
WilberCunLickler wrote:
Speaking strictly, does the r, K distinction apply within a single species?
You got me. However, the species concept is useless for microorganisms and IMHO increasingly irrelevant for macro fauna. Since reproductive isolation is allegedly one of its hallmarks, it is arguable that speciation is always ongoing. Given a choice, would you fuck a morlock or Homo Superior?
http://b.imagehost.org/0841/morlocks-2.jpg http://b.imagehost.org/0816/250px-Ubermensch2.jpg
I'll take the one with the blue penis.
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