Today's post, Visualizing Eutopia was originally published on 16 December 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
Trying to imagine a Eutopia is actually difficult. But it is worth trying.
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There are probably country level differentials that high already. For example, some African countries and Japan would probably have that much of an average difference. Japan has a lot of faults, but in many ways it's a pretty good place to live.
(I just finished watching the anime Thermae Romae; I was shocked to see that this extremely quirky manga had also become a $79m grossing live-action movie. I can't help but wonder if that's related to higher IQ, since I have a hard time imagining anything like it being a success pretty much anywhere else in the world, except maybe the US or Europe.)