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I don’t think people seeing me as something I’m not would bother me too much…it’s a daily occurance in lots of people’s lives, including my own. But, I still don’t think I’d take the pill. I like who I am, and I’m willing to earn my intellegence rather than purchase it.

I never had LSD in pill form…

How is that even possible?
You are smarter, but people see you less smarter than you think you are, so in effect you belive you are smart when in fact you are not, so no if that is the case I would not take the pill, I would rather be able to see myself and my abilities the same as anyone else

It’s not about it being possible. It’s about how much you care what people think about you. At least, that’s what I got from it.

You are absolutly correct

Jebus Zeus wrote:
when your on lsd you fell like your a genius and understand everything about the world the universe and everything, but everyone around you thinks your retarded

I know this is not the part of the question we are really supposed to worry about I would worry about the side effects of the pill

sure i’d take the pill. the side effects sound no different than any other pill i’ve ever taken…hahaha

First of all… love who you are… you were made the way you were for a reason, every specific person… second, I think when people say something against societal norms others think they are dumb. Take for instance many revolutionaries whom people came up against, whose own family said it could not be done. “A bank for the poor”, who would have thought. Sounds pretty silly, eh? Peoples perceptions of you is something one needs to get over. Unfortunately I do not follow my own advice, as most of my life is based on peoples perceptions of me, so i don’t think I would take this pill. :P… put one should try to get past this point. If being “smarter” is of greater benefit to society, but detrimental to your perception to others, i think it’s a small price to pay. Many wise teachers have said much the same thing including Jesus and Sakyamuni (Buddha). If we always did things based on what others thought of us, I wonder where we’d be.

Jebus zeus, I love ur pic. leary rocks, as does lsd

blacktl5 wrote:
Side effects what ever do you mean a third eye could be useful

precisely!

I’m already smart enough, thanks. This is an impossible situation.

fair enough, enjoy the problem. :)

If it’s just people you know personally or even have met and exchanged a few words with, it’d be worth it to me. If even those you’ve never met think you’re dumber, the ten percent added intelligence wouldn’t mean much to me. It’s nice to value intelligence for its own sake, but what use is it to a world that won’t understand and benefit from it? What good can it do you, really, besides provide a slightly greater amount of insight into the world around you? I guess it depends on what one wants out of life.

Or it depends on what one does with the knowledge. If you keep it to yourself, it’s not really of much use. But if you use it, to get the children off the street, to give money to those who need it, to redistribute the wealth of the world. If you take that leaping chance to look stupid but do something true, it can be of great benefit.

That’s true, and along the lines of what I’d like it for, but you can’t do a lot of that alone (unless your added ten percent intellegence - ten IQ points for the “average” person, really not all that much, gave you enough of an edge to excel in investing and make enough money to pay for the changes you see as necessary). You need people to listen to your ideas and act on them: if everyone in the world (not just those you’ve met) thinks you’re stupid, they won’t do it.

i wouldn’t take it. my own personal intelligence wouldn’t be as enjoyable if i couldn’t share it as fully because to people i would seem less intelligent.

you have to make that move anyway, even knowing that fact. just because people think your 20 percent less intelligent doesn’t mean they won’t follow you. You could still be smarter than most even if you did lose that 20 percent :). But that all depends on how smart you were before. You could work around peoples perceptions if you were that 10 percent smarter. Heh.

I’m already pretty brilliant. If you get too smart things just get awkward.

Bush seems 96.7% dumber than me, does this mean he is really 145.05% smarter than you?

I certainly would not

I would not take the pill. I’m already intelligent, and the people around me know that. Not that it matters what they think, I’m just fine the way I am.

(Sorry if this has already been said)
Look, assume I become an inventor- no one will want my invention if I look like a total dumbass. It would be pointless. And my IQ is 145, and apparently only 0.06 percent of humans have it that high. So yeah, I’m fine. :)

Though you wouldn’t look stupid, really. The pill makes you “ten percent more intelligent” (159.5 IQ) but you appear “twenty percent less intelligent” (116 IQ). It’s really not that much of a difference in either direction, almost certainly not enough to enable one to “do great things” if you weren’t already capable, and not sufficient to make one “look stupid” unless you were already skirting the borderline. It’s more a subtle tweak to one’s life, and depends on what each person wants from life.

There’s no point in being smarter if no one will listen to your teaching. But obviously with higher intelligence, you’d understand more about society and the way people work, so you’d be able to ‘manipulate’ them, in a way. They wouldn’t see you as dumb, cause you wouldn’t let them.