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Al Gore could have had a second shot in 2004 had he actually wanted it. But even then, 9/11 made this second shot much less appealing for him, which is likely why he declined to take it and run again in 2004.

We'll see.

Why not? Asians in the US vote for the Democrats, after all.

What are your thoughts on the fear that even if we will switch to a more merit-based immigration system, the merit-based immigrants who will come here and/or their descendants will push for more Woke politics (cancel culture, racial grievance politics, et cetera) here in the US?

Don't worry; we get much more genetic research for various traits, such as IQ, with each passing decade.

The problem is that the Dem base is more reliant on welfare than the GOP base is, no? So, the GOP base won't be quite as dependent on government money as the Dem base will be.

See, that's what I'm concerned about. Having people die out by having them starve to death and/or end up homeless seems extraordinarily cruel. I'd rather get the government involved in this through incentives and a compassionate social safety net for those who agree to curb their fertility. Less...

Removing the bottom 1-2% doesn't do all that much for the gene pool, and if they're deprived of government aid completely regardless of anything (after a certain time period or whatever), then wouldn't they simply starve to death?

By destroying the social safety net? But that would be very cruel, no?

Then you simultaneously select for both high IQ and good mental health. You can select for multiple traits at once, you know? This is a point that was previously made here: https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2021/11/woke-behavioral-geneticists/ And the risk of dysgenics?

And if they fail at this?

Not any attempts to prevent even teen pregnancy or anything of that sort?

1. Yes, but that would mean that any government program that involves incentives is bad, no? 2. Well, OK, from your perspective.

1. It isn't so much control so much as giving people a better life if they decide to do this. You're more than welcome to reject these benefits, though. 2. So, you don't believe this claim? Anyway, you want a better example of this? OK, the near-abolition of Down's syndrome in Iceland, if you...

1. I never said that the government should choose people's mates, now did I? I simply advocated the use of incentives to encourage eugenic reproduction. 2. What about Medieval and Early Modern England? Though it wasn't so much a conscious effort, but it still apparently produced its desired...

One could say that having countries pursue specific fertility policies would likewise benefit their citizens--for instance, by ensuring that there would be less poor and needy citizens in the future and that the ones who will remain will be able to be better taken care of. There would also be...

And Yeah, whatever traits people view as being desirable in sperm/egg donors could be rather similar to the traits that the population at large could be viewed as being desirable--and ditto for undesirable traits. I don't think that many people would actually want to get sperm or eggs from a...

Have you ever read Garett Jones's 2015 book Hive Mind? If not, then you should. It helps explain why a higher average IQ is beneficial for various things, such as greater economic prosperity. And I find it interesting that conservatives who want a merit-based immigration policy, even though it...

Elaborate, please. If they're smart poor people, then I would want to pay them to breed a lot instead. First of all, a Vasalgel injection is reversible. Secondly, ironically, this proposal would actually make the child support situation much fairer since it would prevent a lot of males'...

People's attempts to select good sperm/egg donors have worked pretty well over the decades, no? Even when they've been choosing anonymous sperm/egg donors, no?