I just noticed something odd - this has almost gotten back on topic again...
Now that is something that you don't see often here.
I was pretty amazed when I saw it had 50 posts in 30 minutes. But guess was I more amazed when I saw it had more than 500 posts in one night?
I was also quite surprised to see the 50 posts come in so quickly. But judging from the incredible rate at which it was growing, at the time I went to sleep, I was guessing that it would probably hit 500 in a couple of hours anyway.
My 2 cents: personally I think that older people tend to be wiser, but not always. Wisdom doesn't come from age, but from experience (learning from it of course), and older people tend to have more experiences in their life. Intelligence is even harder to measure since there are so many aspects. A person could be extremely 'smart', but throw that person on the street and and he/she could easily end up lost, not knowing what it takes to survive.
Yay; someone agrees with me there!
Now, using the standard rules of sociology, it can be shown that the error in probability increases exponentially when mass-mob laws are applied to small groups or individuals. Also, as I said earlier, wisdom is simply the application of theoretical intelligence to human affairs, and so once some rules have been formalized, everyone can become "wise" if they want to.
The human mind of contemporary society operates on certain principles that the masses refer to as "common sense," but these also follow or logical constructs and possibly IRVs. If the "smart" person does not know the workings of the human mind and how it can be manipulated (which, at least today, to some extent, is necessary), then he isn't all that smart in certain areas.
Although I completely agree with you in that it is not easy (if at all possible) to measure average intelligence. The popular definition of it seems to be related to the academic subjects (any of the sciences, math, philosophy, etc.), but that can't really be right either.
As to the whole math thing, I love math, I love fs2, but the joys I can receive from that pales in comparison to many other things (ie love, nature, sports, etc). I believe what should be more emphasized is variety.
Ah, good to see someone who agrees with the first sentence of the Colossus movie description. Out of the other things, I find nature quite beautiful too, but only the universe and existence as a whole; the earth alone is filled with all kinds of crap.
I think that variety as an important component of human thinking, but when people started their cohesion into civilizations, the concept of variety could also be expanded into the civilizations as well. This has already occurred with the division of work; people used to be self-supporting, and had to work on a variety of tasks, but things have become much more specialized since then. The future we are heading towards is the ultimate specialization; every human (or future human) working on specific tasks. The concepts of "joy" and "work" are also essentaially the same at their very core and at the most fundamental level, they cannot be distinguished between. Love was essential up to now because it allowed humanity to reproduce, but that era of history will come to a close very soon with the coming advent of biological cloning and robotic automation.
Hehe, so true, love can truly mess up your life, but than again I think the joys from love (not lust, hehe totally different experience ) far outweigh any possible sorrow (refer to last part of my siggy).
Due to the theory of purpose, that technically strays from the final objective, but we don't need to worry about that just yet. I somehow just do not find love "fun" and certainly not useful; it's just stupid, but that has to do with my personal likes and dislikes and not the whole picture.
Damn good quote, if you ask me. 
Change "love" to "knowledge" and it will be.
