Question:
You are offered a Brain Pill. If you swallow this pill, you will become 10 percent more intelligent than you currently are. However, to all other people you know (and people you will meet from here on out) you will seem 20 percent less intelligent (than you were to begin with). In other words, you will immediately become smarter, but the rest of the world will perceive you as dumber and there is no way you can ever alter their perception.
Do you take the pill?
Klosterman is champion of social commentary.
and i was surprised how i answered this.
You are offered a Brain Pill. If you swallow this pill, you will become 10 percent more intelligent than you currently are. However, to all other people you know (and people you will meet from here on out) you will seem 20 percent less intelligent (than you were to begin with). In other words, you will immediately become smarter, but the rest of the world will perceive you as dumber and there is no way you can ever alter their perception.
Do you take the pill?
Klosterman is champion of social commentary.
and i was surprised how i answered this.
i honestly don't think i'd take it. there's a lot of things i think i'd have been happier not knowing, which i equate with being less intelligent...were i to become smarter i think i'd be even more unhappy. no thanks.