Smart. Pretty, dumb people get taken advantage of. Besides, I'm already unattractive, might as well give me something after making me go through high school ๐
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I mean slightly below average is not bad attractiveness wise. Less hassel to some degree, especially if your a woman. below average intelligence though can really hamstring you. Intelligence all the way. Doesn't say gorgeous though or genius. sounds to me like I would basically be asking for the genie to do nothing based on my academic achievements and dating lack of achievements.
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Beauty I guess, intelligence doesn't make a damn unless you're brave, lucky, or born well
Probably smart, because I'm already pretty smart and the prospect of giving up what I already have seems scary.
Plus, I've lived most of my life thinking I was repulsively ugly; part of overcoming that anxiety involved understanding that "you can be the juiciest, ripest peach in the world, but some people just don't like peaches". If there's anything I've learned from that, it's understanding that attractiveness is even harder to "objectively" quantify than intelligence
I would rather be beautiful because then I wouldn't realize everyone else around me is so unfathomably stupid.
Long Covid and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis have noticeably lowered my IQ. It's a terrible feeling to be more stupid and know that I normally could do better.
So give me intelligence every day. Physical attractiveness can only go so far.
I feel this to my core. I had a pretty successful career in army special operations, which ended after ten years with a few years of extremely heavy drinking, which ended with me getting out of the army and getting boatloads of mental health treatment, which is ongoing.
When I was at my peak, though, my most prize characteristic was my intellect. Now, though, my short term memory is measured in seconds, my working memory is like five digits at most, I forget words many times per day, and there's many more examples.
It's been absolutely crushing to remember such high performance, but be incapable of it now.
I'm studying engineering, so i'll take smarts, we all know that anyone in this field ends up bald by some mystical force anyways
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Why am I forced to downgrade if it's a genie wish?
Sometimes it do be like that.
It's an ifrit
I'm an introvert so I'm going for very intelligent.
If I'm that smart maybe I can work out how to make myself beautiful too.
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You could be Hermann Rorschach or Hedy Lamarr, and be both!
Brad Pitt was one of the first people to try the time travel machine invented in 2030; however when attempting to make a career by introducing 21st century technology in the early 1900s, the only thing he could manage to reproduce was ink blots and folding paper.
That guy really looks like Bradd Pitt
Hermann looks like a Hollywood actor
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If I'm very smart, I could just use my intelligence to make money and then get beauty surgery.
That's not how any of that works.
i'm already dumb and cute, take a hike genie
Beautiful.