A genie appears before you and says you must choose to be very physically attractive, but slightly below average intelligence, or very intelligent, but slightly below average attractiveness? Which would you choose, and why?

  • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    I am the most intelligent person I know. So naturally I would choose intelligence, because christ do I need perspective if that’s what I actually believe

    • Anticorp@lemmy.worldOP
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      4 months ago

      I am definitely not the most intelligent person I know, but I’d put myself at well above average.

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        4 months ago

        well, since I’m humble, I’d probably put myself at well above average + 1. Or +2.

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          4 months ago

          I scored in the 90th percentile on the ASVAB and was in advanced classes in school, which I considered pretty easy, so that’s a good indicator of where I sit. But I have friends who make me feel stupid with their intellects.

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          3 months ago

          You should put it as within 1 sigma/standard deviation. With high probability on positive deviation.

  • Azzu@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    If I’m very smart, I could just use my intelligence to make money and then get beauty surgery.

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    4 months ago

    Smart. Pretty, dumb people get taken advantage of. Besides, I’m already unattractive, might as well give me something after making me go through high school 😒

  • lemmyknow@lemmy.today
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    4 months ago

    What is the definition of ‘beautiful’, here? Do I get to decide, or is it up to the genie’s interpretation?

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      4 months ago

      It will be what the majority of society considers beautiful. So you know, like young Brad Pitt, or young Angelina Jolie, or Jason Momoa, or Gal Gadot, or whomever you consider to be attractive. But! You wouldn’t be Brad Pitt because it says slightly above average attractiveness. So you would be the guy that everyone asks if you’ve ever been told that you kind of look like Brad Pitt.

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        4 months ago

        That’s not a very specific definition, innit? I looked these folks up, and didn’t exactly spot any obvious similarities among them, though maybe that’s just me. I mean, are people gonna see me and be maybe slightly reminded of Jason Momoa but in a dollar store knockoff version, or am I gonna maybe sorta make people unconsciouly be thinking “hmmm… they remind me of someone. I just can’t pinpoint who exactly”, unaware that they’re in fact thinking of Gal Gadot? Cause those are different paths. I mean, what does that even imply? Slightly bigger, a wee bit more muscular, 5 ³⁄₇ pack? Or do I thin out ever so slightly, with a milimiter larger butt or something? So many ways one could change, appearance-wise

  • ReakDuck@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Smarter.

    But I feel like I already have both. At the same time I feel like I have nothing od them both.

    Especially because only a selection tells me that I look very attractive. I get more compliments from males when I dress like a female for Halloween while I am hetero. But mostly I feel like its not true because many people just accept my presents. But maybe they only accept me because I dont look unattractive.

    So choosing attractiveness leads to better social connections which I rely on.

    The intelligence… I feel dumb as fuck often times because simple tasks are difficult for me or getting a focus in general. But I get compliments of being smart as fuck, especially when they see how many peogramming languages I can write in or see the projects I created or I was creative on.

    Still, I guess this is the sideproduct of being too intelligent. That being too intelligent with Asberger and ADHD results into not being able to do simple tasks. I feel like the word “dumb” is just a question of perspective, because i am dumb in too many simple things, except its about a topic I love like Computers, electronics or Math sometimes.

    So the question arrises. When I choose being intelligent. Would I be able to be Intelligent in tasks which people with lower IQ (I guess dumb?) can easily master? And at the same time also in tasks which only people with higher IQ can master? (Idk my IQ btw, could be both high or low. I really dont know)

    Also, would I be able to still connect with people with the intelligence because I would have a high Empathic Intelligence? I noticed that the Higher the IQ of someone is, the lower their EQ will be. Making them a bit Egoistic and unhandsome.

    Its a complex topic with many questions