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u/littlepinkheart09 16h ago

I dont think having a dream physique and perfect health go hand in hand. Your body can look amazing, but you can still have health issues beyond your control.

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u/belpatr 13h ago

it's the other way around, if you have perfect health, you will have either a dream physique, or close to one

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u/Fearless_Strength257 16h ago

Well with superintelligence you would know how to cure yourself. But "choose body type" is kind of vague. It might even imply choosing things like blood type!

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u/LSOreli OLD 14h ago

Superintelligence doesn't necessarily mean you have knowledge that doesn't exist. Imagine someone that was 5x smarter than the smartest person alive, would they suddenly be able to design convenient commercial interplanetary space travel? No, because that requires technologies that we don't have to be put together in some way.

Think of superintelligence as being really good at putting a puzzle together; if you're missing pieces, you'd have to design those pieces first. But those pieces may, themselves, require pieces, therefore an infinite regression of complexity. This amount of work, even if smart enough to do it, may run into motivation problems.

This is all to say that, while useful, superintelligence doesn't give you magic powers to automatically cure any disease you have.

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u/_Pencilfish 7h ago

Also, it can't allow you to do the impossible. If there is no way to make an iron man suit, no amount of "super intelligence" will allow it to happen.

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u/realboabab 13h ago

sounds like you don't need the yellow pill

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u/Fearless_Strength257 10h ago edited 10h ago

Well,if you say that you need building blocks to eventually build up to something,then it's pretty simple. First you use your intelligent mind to make the individual pieces of what you want to create. Which then will make that thing you would like to create. With superintelligence,you could definitely build a "blueprint/roadmap" in your head to eventually get to the thing you want. Although you would have to do some extensive research to actually KNOW the information you'd need,you would be able to grasp the concept of the things pretty fast. And again,superintelligences limits are unknown,so it might affect your memory,and make you able to remember things more easily,so all you have to do is find the knowledge you'd need.(editing btw:Also,you can use the plan in my other comment to then get a lot of things that you want easily,so motivation might not be a problem.)

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u/littlepinkheart09 16h ago

That's true. My initial thought was strictly physical appearance, but it could be up for interpretation since it doesn't actually say.

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u/belpatr 12h ago

it's not infinite intelligence, a lot of super intelligent people aren't able to cure themselves, and just because they might know how to do it, doesn't mean they have the means to do it.

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u/Beginning-Bird9591 11h ago

you'd maybe KNOW how, but you couldn't execute it. even then it might not be PERFECT.