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What, you may well ask while staring vacantly at this computer screen, has been the secret of our success as a species? The stock reply to this burning question has traditionally been Intelligence. Upon receipt of such an answer, many people think that Intelligence is the ability to recall who won the Battle of the Bulge or how far it is from Guayaquil to Ulan Bator. Apart from the extremely improbable event of hooking up with some airhead at a party who is so impressed by factoids that she is willing to bear your child, these abilities are not likely to increase the chances of your genes surviving in another incarnation. They are merely the flickering lights on the Xmas tree of intelligence, not the presents beneath.

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rdfs:comment	What, you may well ask while staring vacantly at this computer screen, has been the secret of our success as a species? The stock reply to this burning question has traditionally been Intelligence. Upon receipt of such an answer, many people think that Intelligence is the ability to recall who won the Battle of the Bulge or how far it is from Guayaquil to Ulan Bator. Apart from the extremely improbable event of hooking up with some airhead at a party who is so impressed by factoids that she is willing to bear your child, these abilities are not likely to increase the chances of your genes surviving in another incarnation. They are merely the flickering lights on the Xmas tree of intelligence, not the presents beneath.
dcterms:subject	Survival
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abstract	What, you may well ask while staring vacantly at this computer screen, has been the secret of our success as a species? The stock reply to this burning question has traditionally been Intelligence. Upon receipt of such an answer, many people think that Intelligence is the ability to recall who won the Battle of the Bulge or how far it is from Guayaquil to Ulan Bator. Apart from the extremely improbable event of hooking up with some airhead at a party who is so impressed by factoids that she is willing to bear your child, these abilities are not likely to increase the chances of your genes surviving in another incarnation. They are merely the flickering lights on the Xmas tree of intelligence, not the presents beneath. No, intelligence is useful insofar as it allows us to make a good guess about what is going to happen next. Can I kill that beast over there or will it kill me? Is this a good time to plant the crops? Will that airhead over there be sufficiently impressed by factoids to put out? Yes, that good old ability to get ahead, often known as Wisdom. All that accumulated Progress that allows you to have enough spare time to waste reading articles like this. Perhaps, like so many of the kindred spirits who are unable to understand survival, you are troubled by your apparently meaningless existence. This used to be a crucial part of natural selection, for when a supposedly intelligent animal became obsessed with the meaning of life, that animal had a much better chance of becoming food before its time. Since your ancestors have built the great juggernaut of human society for you to coast down the road to extinction, you may well be able to survive for a considerable length of time before the wheels fall off. What is the answer to this Damoclean sword of intelligence that allows us to slash through the problems of survival, then cuts off our motivation as soon as we get comfortable? The answer is Untelligence, which in very simple terms is the ability to identify bullshit.

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