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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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.
I want the intelligence, but could I settle for my current level of attractiveness?
Intelligence can be attractive too! And even in the cases where it’s not, I think I can always go for surgery or something if it’s really that bad.
Intelligence can be learnt, but it’s much harder than say, correcting one’s facial features or getting into shape imo.
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
I’m already smart and beautiful.
Isn’t there a genie out there that cures anxiety?
Not really a genie, more of a willo the wisp, but I get it from a bloke called Spider. It’s very more-ish.
Neurotypical
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.
Beautiful.
I’ve tried the other way already. Not so good.
How about slightly below both but with some solid executive functioning and 0 mood disorders? I’ll take that.
Would I be pretty and daft enough to not overthink and complicate everything and to finally be happy?
Ok then. Let me be a himbo. The ladies may take advantage.
The latter. I guess that’s kinda what I have already and I have no complaints. I’m aro/ace anyway so I don’t really need the stunning looks for dating purposes. My relatively decent ability to learn new things never ceases to entertain me
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 mean slightly below average is not bad attractiveness wise. Less hassel to some degree, especially if your a woman. below average intelligence though can really hamstring you. Intelligence all the way. Doesn’t say gorgeous though or genius. sounds to me like I would basically be asking for the genie to do nothing based on my academic achievements and dating lack of achievements.
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.
So… the genie offers to make me look better by increasing my looks to only slightly below average? Noice!
