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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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[โ€“] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 3 points 2 months ago

Beautiful.

I've tried the other way already. Not so good.

[โ€“] Bearlydave@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I chose Chameleon from the Xanth universe.

[โ€“] davel@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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?

[โ€“] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] davel@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, just the first page of the modlog.

[โ€“] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

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.

[โ€“] RBWells@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Where do I live? If I'm in a place where people are beautiful, slightly below average attractiveness would be perfect for the rest of the world, make me a genius.

If I live where people are so intelligent and are ugly, please make me better looking and slightly dumber than them, I can make my way through the world just fine.

I think looks are easier to fix, but learning can help fix stupid - I'm sure there are at least some stupid people with more sense than some smart people.

[โ€“] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Education can cure ignorance, not stupidity.

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[โ€“] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Beautiful. I've tried smart, it sucks.

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[โ€“] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Probably smart, because I'm already pretty smart and the prospect of giving up what I already have seems scary.

Plus, I've lived most of my life thinking I was repulsively ugly; part of overcoming that anxiety involved understanding that "you can be the juiciest, ripest peach in the world, but some people just don't like peaches". If there's anything I've learned from that, it's understanding that attractiveness is even harder to "objectively" quantify than intelligence

[โ€“] refalo@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would rather be beautiful because then I wouldn't realize everyone else around me is so unfathomably stupid.

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[โ€“] BigBenis@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

If we're talking 90+ percentile then no question I'd go with smarts and use it to have a big impact on some field of science. Otherwise I'd probably still pick smarts but it's more of a tossup.

[โ€“] KnightOfOldEmpire@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Attractive, it's wild how people are more likely to help you in either small or greater acts or be willing to overlook some of your flaws.

Whats good looking gonna do if you are gonna be suceptable to the simplest scams in the world?

[โ€“] gazter@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago

I think I'd rather be smart. I'm honestly often so impressed with beautiful people, because that shit takes work.

I can roll out of bed, pull my three week old sauce stained shirt over my gut, and go do smart shit with a terrible haircut and no one gives a fuck.

Beautiful people will have chosen matching outfits worth thousands, spent an hour on hair and makeup, all after a morning gym session, and they'll keep that hair perfect all day, getting their spa session in and finding time to do their nails.

How do they even have time to cook a healthy well balanced meal?

[โ€“] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm already smart and beautiful.

Isn't there a genie out there that cures anxiety?

[โ€“] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not really a genie, more of a willo the wisp, but I get it from a bloke called Spider. It's very more-ish.

[โ€“] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well how long would I have to give one of them up for?

[โ€“] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago
[โ€“] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Easily smart and slightly below average attractiveness. It's pretty trivial to boost your appearance by 2-3 "points" with some decent fashion choices, makeup, working out, and good grooming.

Worst case, I use my high intelligence to get a high paying job and use some of the money for plastic surgery.

[โ€“] Hyphlosion@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Iโ€™m currently neither. Since Iโ€™m already used to not being intelligent, Iโ€™d go with being beautiful. Then I could always work to increase my intelligence if I wanted.

[โ€“] Enkrod@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

So... the genie offers to make me look better by increasing my looks to only slightly below average? Noice!

[โ€“] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

There are other variables the genie leaves wildcard.

Suppose I'm already very intelligent and attractive (and modest), except I'm also a wimp, myopic, have weird metabolism, autistic and with bipolar.

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