Would you rather be smart, or beautiful? (lemmy.world)

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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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[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago

Intelligence, easier to figure out how to improve my attractiveness and deal with complex problems in general than trying to get smarter.

[-] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

if you're beautiful you don't need to be smart.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Beautiful but unintelligent people can make far more mistakes than intelligent but not beautiful people.

this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2025

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