I think I’ll stay where I am.

Reduce my empathy for extra intelligence. Kill two birds with one stone.

Less empathy, more happy, easy choice.

Neither, since I don’t deal with vague quantities of what influences my ability to making choices.

I understand the assignment, but I’d rather see it expressed in more precise way like “would you rather give up the ability to measure distances for the ability to tell precisely the state of mind of your discussant, OR…”

I don’t feel like I’m lacking either all that much. If anything, having too much is an impediment in life. Less intelligent people don’t need to worry so much, and sociopaths don’t have a care in the world.

I mean, my empathy causes me a lot of stress. I’ll take the intelligence.

I’d vote to increase my intelligence, but I don’t have empathy to reduce.

I would reduce my empathy because I have way to much of it 🤣

Taravangian?

I’ve said for years that I think one of the biggest problems in this world and in the USA specifically (because I live here) is lack of empathy. People just don’t care about anyone’s problems until they face the same. Especially in America. Our society is built around the “do it yourself, overcome all odds” mentality. I feel like the world would be a much better place if everyone were more empathetic. That being said, I think I would reduce intelligence and gain more empathy. I tend to shoot myself in the foot with correcting people and wanting to “teach” a lot. That plus my extreme social anxiety makes it hard to get along with people.

Let me put it like this: the world could do with more empathy.

Empathy is not the same as morality. You can be intelligent and still be moral.

Yes.

As someone pretty high in both, I’d lose some empathy. Gets me me in trouble sometimes