How to build a Dyson Swarm

I'm talking long-term versus very very long-term.

Long-term:
IQ catastrophe. High IQ go extinct on Earth.

Very long-term:
Earth is re-seeded by high IQ people from Mars.

Very very long-term:
Birth control breeds humans obsessed with having kids.

— McKibben (@AMK2934) June 8, 2018

Just to clarify the point:


Capitalism relies on human nature evolved under tribalism, but changes that nature. Throughout this blog we keep looking backwards at the past, but what about the future? We can't make any kind of forecast once CRISPR enters the picture because the cycle of recursive iteration accelerates too quickly to matter. Under CRISPR enhancement, human nature and ideology conspire to change DNA, which then creates a new human nature, which then uses CRISPR again to change DNA. The process recurs in a tight loop with each generation designing the next. The species doesn't just rapidly change but evolves in many different directions at once. Many of these directions, in fact most of them, are probably self-destructive dead ends programmed by imbecilic ideologies.


All we can do is establish a baseline for comparison, and that is a kind of "if CRISPR didn't happen what will the human species turn in to?" question. This is still valid because if you build a treadmill on top of another treadmill the first treadmill is still moving; even if some people conspire to counteract rapid genetic processes there will be multiple branches of the human race, and multiple "speciation events" where genetic change moves far enough ahead so that one new group cannot mate with another or is ancestors. Since nature's treadmill is always pushing in one direction, and since there will be multiple races, ideological genetic programs, and species, that direction is likely to prevail eventually, especially if most of the CRISPR programs are disasters that lead to miniature mass extinction events.


(And they will lead to huge die offs because moral attempts to remake the human race have the effect of dramatically exacerbating certain human moral tendencies to the point of destroying fitness. This has already happened with various races. In China men who passed the imperial exam were given higher paying government jobs, and since the Chinese have historically practiced polygamy for high status men the passage of the test conferred the income needed to afford multiple wives. As a result China bred its civilization to the test, systematically rewarding high crystallized intelligence, (but not fluid intelligence), and conformity. This is why Eastern civilization is often referred to as an ant hill.


The Catholic church forbid cousin marriage with dramatic effects on the White race. Forbidding cousin marriage produces hybrid vigor, raises IQ, lowers genetic defects, and most importantly, creates an outbred disposition that leads to capitalism and open societies.


The Zulu gave wives to the warriors that returned from battle, breeding courage, strength, and muscularity into their population. The Jews allowed priests to take wives, breeding high verbal literacy over the centuries.


Whether your civilization was bred to the test, bred for war, or bred for capitalism, the point is that eugenics has been done before in one way or another, and is largely responsible for the world in which we live. Every project had a cost: as a result of being so outbred Whites are excessively indifferent to their own survival as a race, Jews have a high proportion of neurological disorders, blacks have an enormous crime problem, and the Chinese are excessively conformist. Imagine a genetic program designed to breed humans without racism. Such is conceivable in the current year. Suppose it turns out that moral love of the family is strongly associated with ingroup preference and hatred of the outgroup. Suppose that the act of eliminating racism creates a subspecies of sociopaths. If a man says to you "I will join whichever side is stronger" do we not consider him morally deficient? We require a tribal precommitment from people to consider them moral; a human who will work for the strongest party regardless of their values is seen as sociopathic, and yet such a human is totally devoid of xenophobia. Would not the attempt to abolish xenophobia also abolish morality? Morality evolved as a mechanism for defending the genes belonging to oneself that had been dispersed within the bodies of fellow tribe members through reproductive processes: it is bound to the protective xenophobia that created it. Abolishing hatred of the outgroup would no doubt abolish all loyalties completely.


The "treadmill under the treadmill" is constituted of three trends: the destruction of IQ on Earth, the effects of reproductive technology, and the exit of humans to Mars.


In a few hundred years IQ on Earth will decay to the point of irreversibility, unless every single gene responsible for it is identified. This either means a standardization of intelligence through a biological manufacturing process, (all that is not preserved as a patented process eventually decays), or mere decay. This will happen as long as dysgenic processes continue, and those processes are likely to continue because it seems IQ began to decay in the Victorian era. Since there have been wars and revolutions since then politics does not appear to reverse the trend, and so I do not think collapse would be enough. But the world is running out of resources and when it reaches its terminal point the R-selected society of growth will convert into the K-selected society of zero-sum economics, authoritarian government will prevail, monarchy will reappear in the world, and a massive elimination of the R-selected will occur.


It's a coin toss.


Regardless, humans will exit to Mars. Since the conditions are much, much harsher over there than here intelligence will exist somewhere. If it decays on Earth then Mars will one day reseed or conquer the Earth with higher IQ people. Regardless of any of that birth control will make humans more and more preoccupied with having children. When that happens the world's population will skyrocket.


Imagine a trillion human beings on Earth. The planet is a carpet of skyscrapers, and there are enormous metal fins sticking out into space to radiate the body heat of humanity which would otherwise cause global warming if it was not dispersed. Every human lives in an apartment the size of a shelf: 6 feet long and 4 feet wide. You have to pay for air, need to get on a waiting list to go to the beach, and cars are illegal. It is cheaper to live in space than on Earth, but the rent on your shelf costs $11,000 a month and it takes 20 years for you to save up the money to exit. Despite all of this every human is genetically obsessed with having children because a thousand years of selective pressure from birth control have evolved them to be this way. The government cannot forcibly change human DNA without causing a planetary riot because humans don't just want to have children they want their children to have children, and eliminating the desire would betray the desire. Religion has been adapted to serve this need and people believe their souls reincarnate through their offspring.


So how do you build a Dyson Swarm? You don't. Human nature changes to build it for you.


Now you might say, "I would rather live in hell." Well yes, so would I. The point is that the world is a process, and is not comprehensible through moral thinking. You know the plagues of the Middle Ages? The future doesn't have to be better than the past. You don't moralfag your way out of the overpopulated Dyson planet. No amount of social justice or religious hysteria will save you from a horrible future. There will never be any substitute for the-will-to-think.