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?

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• Donjuanme@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Push the button until you’re intelligent enough to know you’ll only regret it more the next time you push it.

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  • ivanafterall@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But maybe the thought that "you'll only regret it more" is only your short-sightedness due to being too dumb. If you push it again, you'll finally understand better how to apply it all.

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    • RGB3x3@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It gives you intelligence, but it doesn’t give you drive or a good work ethic.

      So you just end up extremely intelligent and still lazy.

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  • AlphaOmega@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Insanity is only a button push away.

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  • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What if you can’t know till you hit that point

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• be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think you'd wind up losing the ability to have meaningful relationships with your loved ones and others in your life, as your raw intelligence pushed you towards a sort of hyper-rationality. Maybe you'd also stop caring about that. But chances are your loved ones wouldn't.

  I'd proceed cautiously. Nudge it up, give some time to see how your life changes as a result. Maybe do some journaling. A couple weeks or months later, nudge it up again, etc. That way you can get some metrics regarding how its impacting your life and make the decision to stop if you think things are heading the wrong way.

  Also something something Lawnmower Man and something something Flowers for Algernon.

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  • EatYouWell@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also, extremely intelligent people are often seriously depressed.

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    • Coasting0942@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Some dude I knew cried while drunk bemoaning the heat death of the universe.

      My dumbass reply?

      I didn’t hear no bell

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Intelligence doesn’t necessarily make you rational; for example all the extremely intelligent people who believe in mythical sky daddies without evidence of said sky daddy.

    It’d also a false spectrum to place intelligence opposite of empathy, these are two distinct qualities in people. Intelligence doesn’t predict one’s interest, or your behavior, or how you might relate to people.

    Keep in mind, in flowers for algernon, Charlie was always socially awkward . Before the experiment, he was lacking in understanding that his “friends” were bullying him; as his intelligence (and knowledge and understanding;) grew… he came to understand that, coupled with the resentment of his old tormentors kept him socially awkward and isolated.

    It wasn’t that he was suddenly hyper rational, but rather that he came to understand, and they resented him for that.

    In any case the obvious solution is to share the button.

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    • OrderedChaos@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sky daddies. 😂

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    • be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In any case the obvious solution is to share the button.

      100% agree there

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    • null@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      extremely intelligent people who believe in mythical sky daddies without evidence of said sky daddy.

      Like who?

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    • dope@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      for example all the extremely intelligent people who believe in mythical sky daddies without evidence of said sky daddy

      When somebody who’s smart believes something that seems dumb to you, doesn’t that suggest that you might be wrong and/or misunderstand what they said?

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  • Hobart_the_GoKart@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, I was thinking more like Dr. Manhattan. Have fun on Mars.

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    • be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I was going to reference Dr. Manhattan but I'm not familiar enough with the comic to be sure I have the right interpretation of his character. I've only seen the movie and the series.

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  • dope@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was thinking more the “general understanding” type intelligence rather than the spock/data type intelligence. But sure, either way your relationships might suffer.

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• rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s a monkey paw deal. Greater intelligence means a greater understanding of the world and how much it sucks.

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  • dope@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “the world sucks” is a conclusion drawn from your present level of intelligence. You might draw different conclusions when you hit the next level of intelligence.

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    • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Let’s look at an example.

      Level 1 INT:

      Israeli invaders are killing Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

      Level 2 INT:

      Israeli invaders are killing Palestinian civilians in Gaza, and the USA is funding them.

      Level 3 INT:

      Israeli invaders are killing Palestinian civilians in Gaza. The invasion is an indirect result of harrassment and conflicts between Israel and irregular muslim extremist militants. The American involvement stems from a foreign aid agreement from the 1960s (rooted in WWII events) and several terrorist attacks by the same extremist groups.

      No, greater understanding doesn’t make it better. Things don’t happen in a vacuum and the good (or understandable) doesn’t cancel out the bad.

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    • snooggums@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Even if only 10% of the world sucks, that is enough for t"he world sucks" to be accurate. It is higher than that, and barely anything that happens doesn't include something negative as an outcome.

      Community celebrations often uplift most people while ostracizing a portion of the population. Many people see things that could uplift everyone as zero sum games and then make sure they end up that way. Many times there are glaringly obvious solutions that are either held back or are implemented and then completely undone in short order by regressive groups. Even recognizing how many positive sounding slogans are blatant lies to mislead the masses, but everyone has fallen for them, is seriously depressing.

      And all of that could be easily understood by the average person if they didn't want to believe the positive stuff was true and that those that speak up about unfair treatment are just seeing things wrong.

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    • Scubus@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This isn’t meant as a brag, but as ethos. I am openly considered to be the most intelligent(book smarts) person I know. Not by me, but by everyone around me.

      Through self reflection, i have realised that suffering is universally bad. Unfortunately, we evolved in a darwinian universe, and as such suffering is inevitable. My conclusion is that the only way to permanantly erase suffering is to permanantly erase everything with the ability to suffer.

      All life in the universe must be erased, or else things may eventually evolve to commit even greater atrocities than the human race has already managed.

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• angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Seeing all these “Intelligence sucks” comments makes me realize the anti-science movement is natural and inevitable. We’re doomed.

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  • Meowoem@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A lot of it is very clearly an ego thing, they’re all saying ‘I’m smarter than most people who need to push the button and anyone smarter than me is also worse off…’ it’s the same thing people do with the age they were born ‘older generations don’t understand, newer generations have been ruined’

    I think it’s partly because no one wants to admit if they were smarter then they’d make better choices because then there might be someone smarter who suggests that change their mind on something and that’s never going to happen.

    Like all the comments ‘i know things are bad, if don’t want to understand how bad they are’ it’s inconceivable that they could understand their misthinking on a subject and change their opinion, they see it as any extra intelligence will just make them more sure they’re right.

    Personally I’d hammer that button for a few days then spend some time trying to work out solutions to my problems and the world’s problems - if I can’t do it I’ll go back to the button until I’m able to

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    • angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I like both your explanation of the prevailing answers here and your proposed use of the button - it all makes sense!

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  • Rolando@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re just trying to trick you into not pushing the button, so that when they press the button they’ll outwit you.

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  • dope@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe they’re just all being contrary and ironic. Because you know they’d hit that button faster than you can blink. You can bet your liver on it.

    Yes, being contrary, ironic (and, in a word, bitchy) really is that popular.

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• starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My problem isn’t that my int is too low, it’s that my wis and cha are both negative

  Gimme a button that grants rizz and social awareness

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  • AeroLemming@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Technically, you could probably figure that stuff out manually by just working it out in your head if you were smart enough.

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• GlitterInfection@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is there a button that makes you less smart? I would want to push that button until I was happiest.

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  • Mbourgon@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Extended warranty? How can I lose?!” “Perfect”

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  • edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There is, but it’s not a button

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  • dope@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So you think stupidness makes you happy? I gotta say I disagree.

    I mean it’s intelligence that keeps you from trying to eat rocks. Eating rocks clearly leads to unhappiness.

    Maybe we’re talking about 2 different kinds of intelligence.

    I’m talking about “understand all the things” (mind, body, emotions, etc) type intelligence.

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    • schmidtster@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you’re stupid you’re not going to notice the world burning down around you. Blissful ignorance.

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    • GlitterInfection@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.”

      If the button increases capacity but not the actual things you know, then I’d say pushing the button would drive you kind of batty rather than improve any measurable quality of your life. Better to be stupid and happy.

      If it gave me answers to the secrets of the universe and the means to use them then I would absolutely bash the button. Let me accelerate the development of society through affordable space travel, cures for all diseases, and convincing eli5 arguments that bring peace to the world.

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• hperrin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The saying “ignorance is bliss” is a common saying for a reason.

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  • dope@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    you should go into the scrap irony business.

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  • BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In OP’s case you’d have to mash that button till the point of bitter regret

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• CaptObvious@literature.cafe ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’ve obviously never read Flowers for Algernon.

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  • GiantRobotTRex@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I just finished reading that earlier today. What a coincidence!

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  • ivanafterall@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I haven't, but I Googled it. It's about a MOUSE!? I always assumed it was one of those "unhappy women in corsets"-type books.

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    • RGB3x3@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Charlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligence-a procedure that has already been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon.

      As the treatment takes effect, Charlie’s intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment appears to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance, until Algernon suddenly deteriorates. Will the same happen to Charlie?

      It’s not about the mouse. It’s about the issues that come with extreme intelligence and the progress and deterioration of Charlie.

      It’s an excellent book and very much worth reading.

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    • TomatoSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Stupid sexy Algernon

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    • rosymind@leminal.space ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Read it. It’s short and easy and it will stay with you for a lifetime

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  • jpeps@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not exactly at the same level, but a short story related to this topic that I love is Understand by Ted Chiang.

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• fubo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well, if you keep pushing the button eventually you will be smart enough to figure out something even better to do with your time. Then push it once more to check. Then if the idea still seems like a good plan, go do it.

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  • ivanafterall@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Had you pushed it once more, the fatal flaw would have been all-too-obvious.

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  • dope@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That seems sensible, and inevitable. What’s smart today might be dumb tomorrow.

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• Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hell no. I’m smart enough to know that being smart sucks. I’m chucking that thing into the fucking river.

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  • dope@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Then you are in agreement with the majority of the replies here.

    It’s weird. I assumed that everybody wanted to be smarter.

    Maybe they’re just being contrary. Maybe the contrariness-urge is what’s ubiquitous.

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    • Acamon@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Its not that being smart is bad necessarily, but neither is it automatically good. I would never wish myself dumber, and maybe being smarter would be helpful… But most of my problems on life aren’t linked to a limited intelligence.

      Obviously, it depends on your definition of intelligence (itself a complicated issue) but if the button would just give me better IQ score type intelligence I don’t think it’d help much. I’m plenty smart for my day to day life, job, relationships etc. The internal problems that prevent me achieving things are to do with focus and discipline / time management. And the main actual barriers are social or economic.

      So sure, if the button made me so smart that I could somehow just see some novel solution that I could then market for money, so I could afford the life coach who would help me actually achieve the goals I want, then yeah smart me up! But being given a bunch of money would be a more direct solution. And a button that that improved my ability to actualise the plans I’m already smart enough to create would be muchore appealing!

      Tldr: lemmy is full of people who are smart enough that not being smarter isn’t the main barrier I’m their life.

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    • MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ever heard the saying ignorance is bliss? Being just smarter without an outlet means you’re just going to be focused on… well nothing which is also debilitating. Most people we see as smart are just focused on a specific skillset or aptitude and have spent a lot of their own time honing that. For some people that focus comes easier.

      Slamming a button that makes you smarter just means you might be more aware of what you don’t know and how you handle that could be more of a curse than a blessing.

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  • ivanafterall@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You've just cursed some poor catfish.

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  • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah it’d be like being Luke Wilson in Idiocracy.

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• sneezycat@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’ll be super smart and you’ll see all the flaws in the world, but you won’t be able to do anything about it. Have fun living with that!

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  • dope@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Seeing the world as flawed might just me an artifact of your present level of intelligence. Best to be humble I’d say.

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    • snooggums@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      username checks out

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• planish@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And it doesn’t cause other problems like outsmarting the brain systems that are supposed to be attaching your intelligence to the interests of your body? Or the people inconveniently stopping you from snorting cocaine constantly until you die? And there’s no level of intelligence you reach where you note that higher levels are unlikely to be any more use to you in achieving your actual goals, versus spending that button-pushing time on other tasks? And all this intelligence is free and doesn’t require any energy input to run in your head? And at some level you become intelligent enough to impart these abilities to your descendants or to just never die? And you reach a level of intelligence where you can fight off the CIA before you reach a level of intelligence where you interest the CIA?

  People don’t generally reason about things like “intelligence” as an abstract value from zero to infinity, because we don’t encounter such things very often. What we do encounter is people trying to scam us. If you present someone with something that appears to be a 100% obvious perfect move with absolutely no drawbacks whatsoever, they mostly correctly conclude that they just aren’t smart enough to understand the catch.

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• UnicornKitty@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would say no. Lots of the super smart people become eccentric. I suspect any smarter and they’d just end up flat crazy. Dealing with being the only one in the room who understands what you’re saying can be lonely.

  I’m working with a group of people, some 10 years younger than me, who don’t really understand technology. It feels weird.

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  • 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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    • 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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• halferect@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I am smart enough to know things are bad I would rather not know just how bad things are

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• jadedwench@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42

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  • dope@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ok I’ll bite. What do the numbers mean?

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    • blue_struct@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s a series of numbers from a TV show called Lost.

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythology_of_Lost#The_Numbe…

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    • jadedwench@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sorry, couldn’t help myself on that one. They had to push a button every 108 minutes, which is the sum of “the numbers”, and they had to enter that code. If they don’t enter the code, the world will end. 😁

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• Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think the sane thing to do is make a machine that hits the button so you can actually use your newfound intelligence. Might need to hit the button a bit before making the machine.

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  • Rolando@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You do this, but plot twist: the button makes the button-pushing machine more intelligent, and it starts to plan your downfall…

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    • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Gonna suck for the machine since it’s incapable of movement or doing anything other than pressing the button. No IoT device here.

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  • NBJack@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Which goes swell, until you realize that you are instead dealing with an ever complex and gnawing realization you can barely quantify as existential dread in light of the remarkably complex yet dangerous capabilities found in every human present and yet to be conceived on this suddenly constricting mortal plane, exceeded only by the sheer number of permutations which you generously call ‘best case scenarios’ that result in an irrevocable destructive spiral on the fragile biome only loosely labeled by you as “third rock from the sun”.

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Being stuck in an existential dread cycle isn’t exactly intelligent. You can logic your way out of it. If you see a demise that you don’t like, there’s no benefit spending what time you have left fretting about the end. Just cross that bridge when you get there and otherwise enjoy life until then, or try to outsmart the situation to avoid it.

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• Smokeydope@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My take away from reading Flowers of argernon, a story about a magical drug that does exactly this being trialed on a severe mentally retarded person is that sometimes ignorance is bliss and intelligence does not equal happiness.

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  • Tujio@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ll always remember a story my buddy told me in high school. His dad was a judge, and absolutely brilliant, and a major alcoholic. One time his dad sat him down and said ‘I think you’ll have a good life. Because you’re smart enough to do well in this world, but not smart enough to realize what a shithole it is.’

    I really think that there is a point where if you’re smart enough, you have brain power to really pay attention to everything that goes on in the world. And paying attention to all of that can do serious harm to one’s psyche.

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• Deestan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Push it enough and you’ll become smart enough to see if it is a good idea or not.

  Then if you see it was not, push it until you’re smart enough to create a button that takes your intelligence back.

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• RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can I have the button forever, and just use it to stave off dementia? I think that’s how I’d use it. Grew up an alienated kid because I was, I’d say precocious more than hyperintelligent. As an adult I feel more settled, there are so many people smarter than me. So like with height, sure, I’d like to be a little smarter and maybe one inch taller. But would I like to have cosmic level insight, or even go through life always being the smartest person in the room? No I don’t think so, in my experience it’s incompatible with mental health.

  But I would very much like to keep at least my current level of intelligence for my whole life. So I’d want that button, yes.

  I do wonder if it would feel like a drug though. Would it be addictive?

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• octoperson@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tap tap tap. Tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap… Tapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapa…
  Tap.
  Tap tap…
  Tap …

  “I’m wasting my time”

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• Rhoeri@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Intelligence is nothing without wisdom.

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• Xavier@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It depends on the definition of intelligence as there are many kind/type/sort/category of intelligences and every psychologist, neuroscientist, philosopher, linguist, ethnologist, educator and a multitude of other specialist will all have their own preferred way to differentiate, categorize, regroup and make hierarchies or diagrams of all matter of intelligence and the different aspects of cognition.

  Then there is general intelligence (g factor or general intelligence factor) which counterintuitively affects “intelligence” less as it increases, coined as Spearman’s law of diminishing returns (SLODR):

  Tucker-Drob (2009) found that a general factor accounted for approximately 75% of the variation in seven different cognitive abilities among very low IQ adults, but only accounted for approximately 30% of the variation in the abilities among very high IQ adults.

  Hence, very loosely akin to current CPUs/GPUs limits (terrible comparison, I know), there’s only so much Gigahertz we can push silicon based CPUs, there is only so many transistors we can smash together into a smaller and smaller space, there is only so much distance/area to carry tiny and fragile signals from one end of the CPU to another before it become undistinguishable from background noise, there is only so much power we can feed a tiny CPU before it reaches thermal saturation and there’s only so many cores and/or modules we can add before most of it remain dormant/barely used in day to day operations.

  Now, concerning your hypothetical button, let suppose there is no such “diminishing return”, one could gladly continuously sit/walk/sleep on the button for more “intelligence”, but to keep up the brain and entire nervous system will have to drastically change just to handle all this increased intelligence. At some point even the brain volume will start to be affected and the brain would outgrow its cranium. All of it will probably excruciatingly painful and accompanied with a cocktail of neurological disorders since the brain keeps rewiring itself as it evolves.

  Neat question indeed. 😆

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• NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You got nothing else to do than push that button all day long?

  Doesn’t seem all too smart… :-)

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• kambusha@feddit.ch ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Too much of anything is never good.

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• dessimbelackis@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Assuming that increasing your intelligence doesn’t give you dr. Manhattan superpowers being supremely intelligent but not all powerful or immortal seems a bit exhausting

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You would quickly become Cassandra.

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• rosymind@leminal.space ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hell no. Keep that thing away from me, the fate of the world depends on it :p

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• CarlsIII@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve heard that higher intelligence can correlate with higher depression, although I’m not sure there have been any actual studies in this

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• AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  High intellect amongst mass ignorance, with those in power totally drunk on intransigent, animalistic selfishness your intellect can do nothing about means living in perpetual torment.

  Trust me.

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• rob299@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i’d argue that pressing the button tooo much would make a person so smart that they couldn’t friend with the average person. Their inteligence level would be so high.

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