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?
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I thought I blocked this shit hole instance a couple days ago. Apparently it didn’t work. Time to add them again!
Why do you keep coming back, OP?
Did you just read through thousands of my comments to find that, or what? To answer your question, this Ask Lemmy community has the most subs according to my app’s search feature, and my question is completely non-political, so I figured I can post it here but not have to deal with the extreme political opinions common to users of this instance.
No, just the first page of the modlog.
I just edited my comment to provide some context, and actually answer your question. I hit submit right about the same time you replied, so you may not have seen it.
If I’m that smart maybe I can work out how to make myself beautiful too.
At a minimum you can work on charisma, and get fit and strong.
I’m an introvert so I’m going for very intelligent.
It’s lonely being intelligent. Maybe I’m just in the wrong social circles.
I like to read books at my construction job when we’re not busy. Yet none of my coworkers have read a book since early middle school, and they only skimmed it to half-ass a book report. I can’t talk to them about anything except work.
I’ve never been beautiful my whole life. I’d give myself a 4 out of 10, a little less than average. I never really cared about my looks, I haven’t worn makeup in ages.
I’d be interested in giving beauty a trial run, see if it suits me better than intelligence.
There are definitely intelligent people in the trade jobs, but the overall mindset is completely different, and a certain lack of soft skills that get developed in other types of careers.
The only people you fool are other stupid people though.
That’s cool though, there’s so many of us that you’ll never run out of fools to dupe.
Smart… Looks good away but intelligence is forever.
intelligence goes away too, it just takes a bit longer
Intelligence, easier to figure out how to improve my attractiveness and deal with complex problems in general than trying to get smarter.
if you’re beautiful you don’t need to be smart.
Beautiful but unintelligent people can make far more mistakes than intelligent but not beautiful people.
Beautiful.
I’ve tried the other way already. Not so good.
Long Covid and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis have noticeably lowered my IQ. It’s a terrible feeling to be more stupid and know that I normally could do better.
So give me intelligence every day. Physical attractiveness can only go so far.
I feel this to my core. I had a pretty successful career in army special operations, which ended after ten years with a few years of extremely heavy drinking, which ended with me getting out of the army and getting boatloads of mental health treatment, which is ongoing.
When I was at my peak, though, my most prize characteristic was my intellect. Now, though, my short term memory is measured in seconds, my working memory is like five digits at most, I forget words many times per day, and there’s many more examples.
It’s been absolutely crushing to remember such high performance, but be incapable of it now.
Can I so intelligent as to quickly figure out how to CRISPR-Cas9 my looks or does tge wish prevent me from changing my appearance?
Not beautiful anyway. I’ll take the smarts
I chose Chameleon from the Xanth universe.
Smart, being beautiful would just get attention from boring people
But if you’re not smart then those would be your people.
I don’t want to be boring
The opposite also works
Why so many people think being smart means getting phd’s and good job/money?
Good job, phd’s require discipline not smartness and often being attractive gets you better confidence/charisma, thats far far more important for getting good money or recognition than smartness
A good job and a PhD require already having money too. This is why beautiful people on OF keep winning, funding their PhDs
In EU PhDs are always paid and often easier to get into than finding a job (at least right now based on my friend circle)
Alina Habba is that you?
Clearly there are limits to this rule
“I can fake being smart.”
Wouldn’t smartness imply discipline?
Nope. Some degree for sure, but once you’ve jumped over whatever hurdle you needed to jump, you just rest on your laurels until the next time you need to rise to a challenge, or until you fuse into the furniture.
Ignorance is bliss.
