You’d need to hit that sweet spot, especially right now
It’s easy to take advantage of someone who doesn’t know any better, and part of that manipulation (especially recently) is trying to get people angry and upset.
Foolishness and stupidity aren’t the same thing, you would be foolish to buy something in tornado alley or a fault zone, but sometimes you also don’t have an option. Or maybe those people are the bottom 10%, notice how OP said until they were happiest, they understand going too far tips the scale again.
“The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.”
If the button increases capacity but not the actual things you know, then I’d say pushing the button would drive you kind of batty rather than improve any measurable quality of your life. Better to be stupid and happy.
If it gives you the answers to the secrets of the universe and the means to use them then I would absolutely bash the button. Let me accelerate the development of society through affordable space travel, cures for all diseases, and convincing eli5 arguments that bring peace to the world.
Is there a button that makes you less smart? I would want to push that button until I was happiest.
“Extended warranty? How can I lose?!” “Perfect”
There is, but it’s not a button
So you think stupidness makes you happy? I gotta say I disagree.
I mean it’s intelligence that keeps you from trying to eat rocks. Eating rocks clearly leads to unhappiness.
Maybe we’re talking about 2 different kinds of intelligence.
I’m talking about “understand all the things” (mind, body, emotions, etc) type intelligence.
If you’re stupid you’re not going to notice the world burning down around you. Blissful ignorance.
You’d need to hit that sweet spot, especially right now
It’s easy to take advantage of someone who doesn’t know any better, and part of that manipulation (especially recently) is trying to get people angry and upset.
I’d rather know enough to not fall for it
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Many don’t, if you’re talking like bottom 10% yeah, shoot for bottom 25% instead.
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That’s a stretch and half there…
Foolishness and stupidity aren’t the same thing, you would be foolish to buy something in tornado alley or a fault zone, but sometimes you also don’t have an option. Or maybe those people are the bottom 10%, notice how OP said until they were happiest, they understand going too far tips the scale again.
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Kinda have to be when arguing with someone from the bottom 1%.
“The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.”
If the button increases capacity but not the actual things you know, then I’d say pushing the button would drive you kind of batty rather than improve any measurable quality of your life. Better to be stupid and happy.
If it gives you the answers to the secrets of the universe and the means to use them then I would absolutely bash the button. Let me accelerate the development of society through affordable space travel, cures for all diseases, and convincing eli5 arguments that bring peace to the world.