If an IQ enhancing treatment would cost you 10 years off your life, how many IQ points would you require it to add before you went for it?
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If an IQ enhancing treatment would cost you 10 years off your life, how many IQ points would you require it to add before you went for it?
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Life is over rated. Taking away 10 years is a favor, because you’re just taking away the worst years you’ll probably live. So the I.Q. requirement for me would be zero to infinity.
Nobody ever has, or ever will do it like the “chief.”
I can think of a few people I wish would trade ten years of their life for some additional IQ points.
I have a 185 points already. But if I knew the last ten years of my life would be on a respirator, I would trade that for another 20 points.
The ten year option would have to be nonlinear. Choosing a ten year, future block of time to eliminate involves too much uncertainty. Something great may occur during the last ten years of one’s life, whenever that may be.
However, having the ability to venture into the past, and cherry pick periods of time to eliminate, would have interesting effects upon the reality we experience in the present.
Finally, you’d have to specify WHAT TYPE of I.Q. points one would be able to gain. There is no universal standard of intelligence. A person who sucks at math, but has the ability to make a guitar sing is intelligent in a way that is unique to them. Additionally, there are probably dozens of ways any one individual may manifest brilliance, and their are likely as many ways to be brilliant as there are people that populate the planet.
In closing, I’d simply require that I’d be granted an I.Q. that would enable me to discover what my “TAILOR MADE” I.Q. is.