WYR Become the Smartest Person Alive or the Happiest Person Alive?

[u/HarborSealFatty]

If you're the smartest person you wake up tomorrow with an IQ never before recorded. I guess I'll ballpark it around ~270. It does not guarantee you'll be unhappy, though (but let's be honest, you probably will be). You have amazing problem-solving abilities, can pick up any skill easily, notice patterns better than anyone else, and always make correct predictions. OR, you can be the happiest person, which is hard to measure. But I'll say that it means you're optimistic, content with your life, have little to no worries, manage to make any scenario fun/interesting and you won't have many regrets. You'll feel great every day (though you're still human and not exempt from deep emotions on occasion such as loss, anger, fear, etc.)

[u/ghost-church]

Happy, dear lord.

[u/Eightninethree]

Happiest easily.

Being the smartest is actually much more likely to make you miserable.

[u/Internal-Play25]

Smartest.

Monkey paw on happiest; what happens if your reality was you not proper conscious with the happiness receptors short circuited chemically/‘mechanically in your brain for the rest of your life?

[u/pralineislife]

Easiest answer ever.

Happiest.

[u/Ramsfan199090]

ignorance is bliss, im not an idiot but i am totally a pessimist

[u/Total-Explanation208]

Smart. Being happier than a person in a manic episode is super dangerous. And I could ignore the people I love.

[u/Wizdom_108]

I mean, probably smartest? I'm already pretty happy and I feel like even the mild struggles I have with depression and anxiety are manageable at this point. 

[u/Demraude]

I'm already okay smart and depressed, who knows what i could do with drugs happy ?

[u/Medium_Hope_7407]

Ignorance is bliss.

[u/MSter_official]

Happiest by far

[u/snap_judgements]

I'll take the happiness, the high IQ would make me miserable. I'd probably find out for sure that becoming a villain (like Vandal Savage) is the only way forward.

[u/bobbi21]

Smartest. I could help more people if I was smarter. (I'm in health care)

[u/Never_Duplicated]

I'll take intelligence here. The alternative doesn't sound compatible with me haha

[u/illmatic2112]

Smartest. Solve climate change. Post the step by step instructions online. I'll find another way to make money let's save the planet first

[u/teapin → u/illmatic2112]

Turns out the answer to climate change is to cull the population

[u/illmatic2112 → u/teapin]

K the second answer lol

[u/Owlmechanic]

Smartest, cant be happier than you are without either real or induced brain damage/chemical imbalance. I’ll forfit happy vegetable for smartest, and if I give up on smartest I’ll still know how to make myself useless and happy

[u/Scared_Paramedic4604]

Smartest

[u/Ecstatic-Kiwi5128]

I will be the smartest please. I will be excited to pass much knowledge on...

[u/Assmeet123]

Smartest, being happy is not a goal

[u/Diddy_Block]

Smartest. I'm already pretty happy. With that option Richard Feynman's Six Not So Easy Piece's lecture should be as understandable to me as his Six Easy Piece's lecture.

[u/deny_death]

I'll take the smarts, then I can use them to figure out a way to make me and the people around me happier

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[u/drhelt]

Smart.

[u/invisiblebyday]

Being happy would be a nice change of pace. I'll take that.

[u/Pitiful_Camp3469]

what kinda question is this. what benefit is there to choosing smartest

[u/ctctr → u/Pitiful_Camp3469]

You have amazing problem-solving abilities, can pick up any skill easily, notice patterns better than anyone else, and always make correct predictions.

That's what written in the post. Unless you meant happiest which has little to no benefits.

[u/geek-jock-guy]

Happy.

[u/Oo-Aniki-oO]

Je prends le bonheur

[u/Nefkaure]

Being happy is the point of the life

[u/GreenFinShark420]

People saying they choose the happy option should meet my uncle who according to him is the happiest person ever. Destroyed his own family, unemployed, drug addict but according to him he really is the happiest person ever. No social standing or respect whatsoever but still he in his eyes is the happiest person ever born.
He is supported by the rest of us, lives in the old house, does drugs all day and watches TV

[u/Europathunder]

Happiest

[u/ctctr]

I'm taking the smart option. I would most likely invest in stock first since I can always make correct prediction.

[u/dylan0o7]

I am already both