Comment on Assuming a button that, every time you push it, your intelligence goes up. The obvious and sane thing to do is to push the button all day. Yes? No? Maybe? Is there something that I'm missing here?

UnicornKitty@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• dope@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So you’d eschew understanding in favor of “fitting in”?

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  • Croquette@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A 100%. If you become the most intelligent person in the world, it will be hard to create connection with people because very few people would truly understand how you are.

    We tend to make friends with like minded people and similar intelligence and pressing that button would disrupt that.

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    • Sternhammer@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nah, your just use your increased intellect to get other people to push the button for themselves, increasing the pool of intelligent potential friends available to you.

      Actually this reminds me of a story I read last year where two people are in a race to massively increase their intelligence. Neither can tolerate the potential threat the existence of another hyper-intelligent person holds so it’s a struggle to the death. If I remember correctly they gain there ability to effectively read people’s minds by reading body language, micro expressions, etc., develop new systems of logic and hyper-efficient language to think in and have an entirely mental showdown at the end.

      Unfortunately I’m too stupid to remember the title.

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  • UnicornKitty@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m very interested in understanding. But I don’t want to always be the smartest person in the room. I’m already the smartest in most situations I’m in IRL. If it was always like that, I’d definitely go crazy.

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