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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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[-] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 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.

[-] folaht@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

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?

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 5 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.

[-] Ardyssian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] Ardyssian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Maybe it would be a more difficult choice if it was between Intelligence or Constitution (i.e. physical health)

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

Not beautiful anyway. I'll take the smarts

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Smart because if I ever started getting into making videos for my fictional P²EMG company, would needs the smarts to make a v-Tuber model of my fursona work, alongside some other tools I won't disclose.

[-] Monster96@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

I can work on my intelligence but I can't work on my genetics. So, if take physical attractiveness.

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago
[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 5 months ago

Only dudes and weird chicks online seem to care about this metric lol

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

The genie does not honor your second wish.

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