Not sure if you are familiar with Dutton's work the genius famine but according to him you will most likely end up with a slightly improved NPC, but he himself is mostly a normie so don't take it as gospel.
Edit: to clarify, while consciousness is not intelligence per se and I believe in the existence of the soul; one cannot deny the fact that dim witted people are hardly conscious and that they also lack abstract thinking abilities which means genetics must play a part.
That's a very bayesian take (averaging of parents). Why shouldn't consciousness at a minimum have a random element that possibly moves one outside the box?
Dutton's work states that it's even worst than a simple average. His view is that some people have bad genetics not simply because of heredity but also because of deleterious mutations which do not average out, the deleterious mutations override the good genetics and win over them.
He basically says, you need two good originals to get a good copy or a slightly improved copy (offspring). One good original and one bad original would produce a mostly bad copy. Thus a continuous process of survival of the fittest is needed to improve the stock, when that process is gone there is a risk of extinction.
Personally, I do not believe completely in Darwinian evolution, rather that perhaps it is directed. Perhaps indeed the soul brings out an element that will uplift humanity and that there is a far more intelligent process at work that we do not understand.
All that said and done of course, I think we are attacking the "NPC" too much, we have fallen for the division they want us to fall in. Some "NPC"s are that way not because of lack of consciousness but simply because they have been too crushed in life due to circumstances and had no time to rise up. Others have had it too good that they didn't have many reasons to be skeptical about the establishment.
Not sure if you are familiar with Dutton's work the genius famine but according to him you will most likely end up with a slightly improved NPC, but he himself is mostly a normie so don't take it as gospel.
Edit: to clarify, while consciousness is not intelligence per se and I believe in the existence of the soul; one cannot deny the fact that dim witted people are hardly conscious and that they also lack abstract thinking abilities which means genetics must play a part.
That's a very bayesian take (averaging of parents). Why shouldn't consciousness at a minimum have a random element that possibly moves one outside the box?
Dutton's work states that it's even worst than a simple average. His view is that some people have bad genetics not simply because of heredity but also because of deleterious mutations which do not average out, the deleterious mutations override the good genetics and win over them.
He basically says, you need two good originals to get a good copy or a slightly improved copy (offspring). One good original and one bad original would produce a mostly bad copy. Thus a continuous process of survival of the fittest is needed to improve the stock, when that process is gone there is a risk of extinction.
Personally, I do not believe completely in Darwinian evolution, rather that perhaps it is directed. Perhaps indeed the soul brings out an element that will uplift humanity and that there is a far more intelligent process at work that we do not understand.
All that said and done of course, I think we are attacking the "NPC" too much, we have fallen for the division they want us to fall in. Some "NPC"s are that way not because of lack of consciousness but simply because they have been too crushed in life due to circumstances and had no time to rise up. Others have had it too good that they didn't have many reasons to be skeptical about the establishment.
I agree that we should be better at giving people a chance.