2015-03-15, 05:41 PM
Luxeraph Wrote:Indeed but when population starts declining people would be forced to choose between whatever life they got and having babies and we already got people already having their offspring being raised by strangers, plus I doubt ads(or is it educational video?) like the one in futurama about daiting bots will help.
Baring the invention and widespread use of literally free contraceptives, the population decline won't be universal. Minority groups and the impoverished continue to breed disproportionately regardless of the invention of expensive sex bots.
[MENTION=3480]MissingLink[/MENTION]; The above is also relevant to you. Minority groups do indeed suffer disproportionate incarceration rates, but they also have a disproportionate number of children. Since many inmates are also permitted conjugal visits, I don't really think we're getting significantly fewer minority births since their population continues to make up a larger percentage of the total US population (immigration is very significant to this as well).
As for the premise that intelligence is mostly genetic:
Your example is wildly fallacious. Any genetic links to intelligence (and there surely are some) work more as a potential cap on raw intellect. Having more brain power doesn't actually imply success in life or breeding. I'd wager that after a certain point (say 80th percentage), genius level IQs actually make you less likely to find a mate and reproduce. Many of these would also have accompanying disorders like Asperger's. It's been show again and again that the biggest predictor of academic and economic success is the parent's socioeconomic status. So when you're looking at the racial percentages of doctors or other "intelligent" professions, you're far more likely to see the effects of social and economic status than any genetic level intelligence.