Keep in mind that Einstein revolutionized the study of physics in a way that at most three or four humans have in the last two thousand years.
If we grant you all your claimed accomplishments (and that’d be insane for us to do, but for the lulz let’s do it), you’ve flipped through a book real fast and remembered it.
The fruit farmer who brings an apple to the market–the dogsitter who keeps a puppy happy–the custodian who sweeps the elemntary school–all of them have accomplished something more important than flipping real fast through a book. All of them have contributed to human happiness more than you have. If we’re going to discuss eugenics, why on earth would I value your genes more than theirs?
First of all, the OP is preaching to the choir here, given that everyone on the SDMB is above average.
But I question the basic premise, that a person with high IQ is going to produce amazing kids. That the OP is (supposedly) really smart and really good-looking doesn’t guarantee that any children will be smart and/or good-looking. Lots of smart people (even Nobel Prize-winning geniuses) have turned out to be terrible parents, with kids who survived their childhood (rather than thriving in their childhood). And lots of ordinary parents have turned out some really terrific kids.
My brother and sister-in-law, for instance, are smart and sensible enough, but I doubt that they’re supergeniuses. But their two kids (now getting out of undergraduate school and high school, respectively) are, objectively speaking, great people.
Rather than trying to create children who are beautiful geniuses, I’d rather see children who grow up to be happy, well-adjusted adults who are good people, no matter what they look like, how smart they are or what they do for a living.
Yup. I confess that as a parent I take tremendous joy when my kids show precocity, more than is strictly wise. But while a less wise part of me wants them to be ultra geniuses, my wiser self wants them to be happy and kind, to be people who enjoy life and help others enjoy life. Reading fifth-grade books while in first grade is good. Volunteering to share a treat with a little sister is way more important.
And Quicksilver, how should I know? Ask Aunt Polly.
I have no idea where you get this notion but in fact we don’t even have an accepted value for the general heritability of measured performance on IQ tests, much less an association of intelligence with specific chromosomes, or indeed a general agreement on how to repesent and measure intellect. (The Intelligence Quotient is commonly taken as an estimator of general intellectual performance and a predictor of success in education and vocation but is often regarded as flawed especially when trying to make assessments on the high end. As araminty notes, the reason the children of geniuses are not often as accomplished as their parents is due to regression to the mean; while smart people often have and raise smart children (due to some combination of favorable genetics and intellectual stimulation) it just isn’t statistically possible to increase intellect or any other physiologically defined characteristic indefinitely.
There is, of course, no test or assessment that can reliably and repeatably estimate IQs above 160, and given the deviation from the mean (over 4 standard deviations) it isn’t even clear what a general score would be measuring as geniuses tend to evidence advanced capabilities on only one or two areas of endeavor. The assumption that intellect is can be represented as a Gaussian distribution is likely inaccurate as well, so the further you get from the mean IQ is a poorer estimator of intellect or potential achievement.
As for the rest of the boastful claims of the o.p. most have been thoroughly addressed and debunked, but far from being a psychopath (who, frankly, would not be looking to a message board for adoration or validation), he reads more like a pathological narcissist or a troll. And just for the record, it is possible, through total emersion and saturation, for a reasonably intelligent person to learn a foreign language in 6-8 weeks to a suitable degree of proficiency to understand native speakers at an adult level. Neither French nor Russian (despite the Cyrillic alphabet of the latter) are particularly difficult for native English speakers to learn, so having mastered some self-assessed degree of proficienty in six or nine months is no more an especially impressive achievement than bench pressing 140 lbf.
Well, I have crappy genes and I didn’t really hesitate in having a kid. Because goddammit, if I have to suffer through life as less than Übermensch, then I’m gonna make sure I don’t suffer through it alone. I’m taking someone down with me! On that note, logic dictates that if you have AMAZING genes, you shouldn’t have kids at all. There can only be so much good in this world.
They will breed a couple of dogs with desirable traits with the general idea they will be passed on. Often they are. But then, there a some where the puppies dont come out so well and they usually put them down.
Now back to the OP, lets say you do have a bunch of kids or heck, sell your sperm. Whats going to happen to the kids who dont come out so well?
What if they use all those brains for bad purposes?
Well, there’s always cloning to consider. Then you don’t have to wonder about the genetic randomness. Of course, you’ll still have to contend with the environment and randomness during brain development in utero. Horse cloners are still out there in the great unknown but “greatness” seems to be mostly environmental. Of course it would be a good idea to actually PROVE in some way you posses “greatness” before proceeding to clone yourself. You know, win a dozen Olympic medals in different sports, win the Nobel peace prize, and cure cancer.
Six-time World Champion Speed Reader Anne Jones is reported to have been clocked at 4,700 words per minute with 67% accuracy, although she says she typically reads at between 800 and 1,500 words per minute.
My uncle is right into breeding race horses all his life and this is a big interest to him, he said if only he could live a few more years he might have it all worked out, he is buggered now, so he was only talking about this to me last month when I was on about a mates dog being as stupid as.
But he said after breeding a few times along the line it all goes fine for the start but then after 3 or so then it all goes to total crap.
As for old mate concern of breading himself I don’t think it means jack, the main thing a child needs is a good father and mother.
A savage dog is only made so, by it’s stupid moron owner.
A IQ test only cam about as a way of measuring how retard one is, you can’t truly measure intelligence as it’s impossible.
One thing I would say that I come across is that a person will point out that some dude we know is smart and they truly believe that’s the case and I say no he is not smart at all, he is just a very cunning person and I don’t believe that cunning is what smart is.
A mate said his dog was smart, no I said it was only cunning.
I assert doubt in the linkage of the X chromosome to general intellectual traits from the fact that we don’t even have a good metric to specifically identify the heritability of specific aspects of intellectual potential, much less tie them to specific genes or chromosomes. Your first link goes to a two page summary article based upon the researche by psychologist Richard Lehrke suggesting that there exist retardation defects associated with the X chromosome, which is not the same as defining genes for general or superior intellectual performance. The second is a letter to the editor in the Journal of Medical Genetics which is an expanded version of the first, again based on Lehrke’s research. Both are circa early to mid 'Nineies, and neither represents a current understanding of the genetic contribution of genetics to intellectual capability, which is far more complex than historically understood. I’m not aware of a statistical study specifically comparing the presumed genetic contribution of intellect of female parents versus male parents but I doubt there is any qualified evidence that general intellectual capacity is specifically linked to the X chromosome.
