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?
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?
Sure you can have the button forever. We’ll mount it on your forehead. Make it invisible so it doesn’t scare the womenfolk.
Then you can go around banging your head on stuff. And when they ask just say, “I’m making myself smarter”.