QA问答：你面前有一个按钮，每次按下它，你就会赚1000万美元，但会损失10个点的智商。你会按多少次？
There is a button in front of you, every time you push it you make 10,000,000 dollars but lose 10 IQ points. How many times would you push the button?
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一次。
失去10个点的智商，意味着失去了足够多的抽象思维能力和解决问题能力。
那会很烦人。我从来没有做过适当的智商测试，所以，我不确定我自己现在的智商状况。但我经常希望自己能够思考得更快一些，而且不止一次的，每当我生病或者睡眠不足的时候，我就感觉自己的“智商”下降了。
我不喜欢那样。
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There is a button in front of you, every time you push it you make 10,000,000 dollars but lose 10 IQ points. How many times would you push the button?
你面前有一个按钮，每次按下它，你就会赚1000万美元，但会损失10个点的智商。你会按多少次？
你面前有一个按钮，每次按下它，你就会赚1000万美元，但会损失10个点的智商。你会按多少次？
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Once.
Losing 10 points on an IQ test means losing enough of the capacity for abstract thought and problem solving that would result in a 10-pt decrease in an IQ test.
That would be annoying. I’ve never taken a proper IQ test, so I don’t know for sure where I’m at. But I’ve often felt that I’d like to think a bit quicker, and more than once I’ve been sick or chronically short on sleep enough to notice a reduced ‘IQ’ equivalent.
I didn’t like that.
一次。
失去10个点的智商，意味着失去了足够多的抽象思维能力和解决问题能力。
那会很烦人。我从来没有做过适当的智商测试，所以，我不确定我自己现在的智商状况。但我经常希望自己能够思考得更快一些，而且不止一次的，每当我生病或者睡眠不足的时候，我就感觉自己的“智商”下降了。
我不喜欢那样。
$10 million, on the other hand, is enough to live comfortably - better than I am now! - for the rest of my life on the principal.
Investing it even extremely conservatively at 2–4% would net me a yearly income greater than I can expect from my entire likely career trajectory. Engineers don’t make ~$300,000 unless they go into business or get very, very lucky.
但是……10分是很多，但又不那么多。
另一方面，1千万美元足以让我过上舒适的生活，会比现在好很多！我的余生都能依靠这笔本金过活。
就算只按照极为保守的投资计算，收益2%到4%，我的年收益也会超过我的整个职业收入。
一个工程师的年收入无法达到30万美元，除非他们从事商业或非常非常幸运。
One of the biggest advantages of ‘IQ’, is that having a high IQ generally means you can solve intellectual problems more quickly. One of the biggest disadvantages of a 9–5 is that it sucks up a lot of your time and mental energy.
In addition to everything else, having that money buys me time. Lots of time.
A small hit to intelligence for lifetime financial freedom, and a huge boon to my available time and energy?
I can handle that.
只要有一个不错的投资组合，你得到的收益将比3%多得多！
“智商”的最大优势之一是，拥有高智商通常意味着你可以更快地解决智力问题。朝九晚五的最大缺点之一是，它会消耗你很多的时间和精力。
除了其他好处之外，拥有这些钱还能为我争取时间，很多很多时间。
这对智力来说，只是一个小小的打击，对我一生的财务自由来说，是一个巨大的恩惠，对可供我支配的时间和精力来说呢？
我能处理好这些问题。
Well… honestly, why would I want more than $10,000,000?
Anything more than 30-40 point drop in IQ would be crippling to such a degree that I just wouldn’t be myself anymore. I don’t want that.
And, to be blunt, what can I really do with $40,000,000 that I can’t do with $10,000,000?
$40 million isn’t enough to put me in the stupid rich - buy-whatever-I-want category.
$10,000,000 is enough to put me in the do-whatever-I-want category. I don’t have expensive tastes or interests, and have no desire to develop them.
$10,000,000 sounds lovely. -10pts on IQ sounds annoying, but not crippling.
Where do I sign up?
为什么只按一次？
嗯……诚实的说，我为什么不想要更多的1千万美元呢？
任何超过30-40分的智商下降，都会严重到让我再也不能做自己的程度，我不想那样。
坦率地说，什么是我用4千万美元可以做到，而用1千万美元却做不到的事情？
4千万美元，还不足以让我跻身于愚蠢的想买什么就买什么的富人行列。
1千万美元，足以让我跻身于想做什么就做什么的有钱人行列。
我没有昂贵的品味或兴趣，也没有发展它们的欲望。
1千万美元听起来不错，损失10点智商听起来很烦人，但并不严重。
所以，我要去哪里报名？
The first thing I do is build a machine that automatically makes my hand push the button (I'm assuming it has to be me directly touching the button and not a robot, or anyone else). Why? Because I'm briefly going to be brain dead.
Before we start, I believe my IQ is somewhere around 120, based on a variety of online IQ tests (yes I know those ones), average grades in school, admittance to gifted and talented programs early in life, and anecdotal evidence.
我要做的第一件事是制造一台机器，让我的手能不停的自动按下按钮（假设是必须直接接触到按钮，不能用机器或其他的东西替代）。
我为什么要这么做？
因为我一直按，很快就会脑死亡。
在开始之前，我预计我的智商大概是120左右，这是基于各种在线智商测试（是的，我知道这些测试）、学校的平均成绩、早年进入天才项目的机会以及各种观察作为证据，预估出来的。
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For the first 3 button presses, I don't notice too much of a change, minus my bank account ticking upwards. If I try to think about doing mental math, it's noticeably harder, and if I were to practice trombone, I would probably not be nearly as quick at solving problems, but honestly I've already solved most of the ones that I need to keep my job, so no biggie.
3千万美元，智商90 。
按下前3次，我没感觉到有多大变化，除了我的银行账户余额滴滴滴的上升。这个时候，我如果试着去做心算，可能会感觉到困难，如果我去练习长号, 我可能不会那么快地解决问题，但老实说，我已经解决了大部分我需要保住工作才能解决的问题，所以，这没有什么大不了的。
After the next three, I'm aware that my brain is no longer capable to performing the same tasks I once was able to. I'm officially mentally disabled, and more than set for life. I still have my plan in mind, but it's fuzzy as to why I need to keep pressing the button. I keep clicking, without knowing why.
6千万美元，智商60 。
再按3次之后，我意识到，我的大脑已经不能再去执行我曾经能够执行的任务了。我正式成为精神残疾患者，需要为生活做更多的安排。我仍然有我的计划，但我已经不清楚我为什么要继续按下按钮了。我一直在点击，但我不知道是为了什么。
I'm pretty much a vegetable at this point. I barely have coordinated motor functions and I don't know who I am. But hey, I'm rich! Thankfully, I set my machine to go off when it hasn't detected button pressing for 5 minutes. I keep pressing the button.
9千万美元，智商30
我差不多变成一个植物人了。我几乎已经没有了协调的运动能力，也不知道自己是谁。但，嘿，我很富有！谢天谢地，我开始的时候把机器设置成为了，如果5分钟不按按钮，它就自动关机。可我仍然急切的按按钮。
Well, I did it! I'm officially brain dead. You're probably thinking I sacrificed myself to take care of my family or something. Nope. I have far more selfish plans. I keep pressing the button, an unthinking husk.
1亿2千万，智商0
好吧，我做到了！我正式脑死亡了。你可能认为我牺牲了自己是为了照顾我的家人或其他什么。不。我有更自私的计划。我一直按着按钮，成为了一个不计后果的躯壳。
Here's where it gets interesting. I bet my life on a theory. A theory that, much like matter, positive and negative IQ are equal in function. I now am the first being to have -30 IQ. My brain is mush, but I keep pressing.
1亿5千万，智商-30
事情开始变得有趣起来。我把我的生命押在一个理论上。这一理论认为，智商就像物质一样，正智商和负智商在功能上是相等的。我现在是第一个智商为-30的人。我的大脑很混乱，但我一直在努力。
I'm now back to my original IQ, but in reverse. I have to think backwards like pig Latin, but I'll get used to it. Left is right and right is left, but eh. It's like the curse on Bomberman. I furiously tap the button.
2亿4千万，智商-120
我现在又回到了原来的智商，但是是负数的。我必须像拉丁猪文字游戏（故意颠倒英语字母顺序拼凑而成的行话）一样向后思考，但我会习惯的。左是右，右是左，但，嗯，这就像对炸弹超人的诅咒。我又使劲按了一下按钮。
I'm now at -240 IQ, one of the smartest people to ever live. Or the dumbest, but so dumb I'm a genius. I arrive at the solutions before the problems even present themselves to me. 400, X is! If equal to 8000, is 5x. Like Yoda
$googolplex, -googolplex+120 IQ
A god, I am. In particular, this one.
3亿6千万，智商-240
我现在的智商是-240，是有史以来最聪明的人之一。或者是最愚蠢的，但我是个有特别才能的人。我甚至在问题出现之前就可以找到解决方案。
4X ！如果达到8000，就是5X 。和尤达一样。
钱：10的古戈尔次方，智商：10的古戈尔次方+120 （译注：1古戈尔=10的100次方 ）
啊！我就是一个上帝，就像这个一样。
Dr. Manhattan from the Watchmen series is essentially omnipotent and omniscient, can teleport, create and destroy matter, even invent life. Seems like a pretty good deal to me.
《守望者》系列中，曼哈顿博士本质上是无所不能、无所不知的，可以传送、创造和摧毁物质，甚至发明生命。
所以，这对我来说似乎是一笔不错的交易。
编辑：这个答案爆炸了！对那些说智商不是这样工作的评论，我想说：谢谢你的启发，但我非常清楚这一点。这只是一个关于欺骗系统的愚蠢回答。此外，智商不能以这种方式发挥作用并不意味着智力不能以这种方法发挥作用。也许不能，但是据我所知，以前从来没有人有过负智力，所以让我享受科幻的乐趣吧！
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Never. I am not at genius level, but my interests and activities are very much dependent on my brain power: still research active, edit journals, write novels. Do not know what dropping 10 points would do, and I don’t want to find out.
I am also in no financial stress, and I am 80. What we have in terms of income and wealth is quite enough to see me out. My dread is dementia.
一次都不点。
我不是个天才，而且我的兴趣和娱乐活动，很大程度上取决于我的脑力：我仍然在积极做研究，编辑期刊，写小说。
我不知道丢掉10点智商，会有什么结果，我也不想知道。
我没有经济压力，我已经80岁了。我的收入和财富，足够支持我到与这个世界说再见。我害怕的是老年痴呆症。
Once.
It would move the left end of my communication range to contain far more people than what there currently is, and would make me a far more amiable person in the eyes of the normal people. 10 MUSD would be more than enough to give me a comfortable life for the rest of my years.
一次。
这将降低我的逻辑思维能力，让我可以和更多的人沟通，并使我在普通人眼中成为一个更和蔼可亲的人。1千万美元足以让我在余生过上舒适的生活。
Right, so, IQ is based on the concept of “mental age” as measured by your score on a test. You calculate a person’s “mental age”, divide it by their actual age, and then multiply the result by 100.
So what would it have to mean for an IQ to be negative? Hard to tell.
智商是一个基于“心理年龄”的概念，这是通过你在测试中的分数来衡量的。你计算一个人的“心理年龄”，除以他们的实际年龄，然后将结果乘以100。
那么智商为负，意味着什么呢？很难说。
I was pulled out of my third grade class and made to do an IQ test. I didn’t know why at the time, but I later figured it had something to do with the way I behaved in the classroom. I also later found the letter they addressed to my parents. My IQ as of 2008 was 127. According to a quick Google search, that is considered above average, but below what is typically considered a “genius.” I haven’t done an IQ test since then, and I don’t plan to. However I am currently enrolled in university, so one can assume the figure hopefully hasn’t decreased by much.
我三年级的时候，学校将我退学，强制要求我去做智商测试。当时我不知道为什么，但后来我发现这与我在课堂上的行为方式有关。后来，我还找到了他们写给我父母的信。
截至2008年，我的智商是127。根据谷歌的快速搜索，这被认为高于平均水平，但低于通常被认为是“天才”的水平。从那以后，我就没有做过智商测试，也不打算做。然而，我目前正在上大学，所以人们可以假设这个数字有望不会下降太多。
For the purpose of this hypothetical, I will round that number up, giving me an IQ of 130.
The average IQ is around 100. With IQs as low as the 80–90 being considered average, or at least functional and not mentally retarded. (Source)
Based on that, I can safely lose 50 IQ points, giving me an IQ of 80, and still be within a normal IQ range, though that would make me noticeably more dull. However, that would give me 50 million dollars. Not accounting for how that would affect my ability to interact with people, and my personality, I’d do a lot worse in school, and probably would not be able to hold a very academically demanding job. That would not matter though, given that I would now be the proud owner of a nice fifty million.
为了更方便计算，我把我智商的数字四舍五入，算做130 。
人类平均智商是100左右。智商低至80-90被认为是平均水平，或者至少没有什么功能上的问题，不算是智力迟钝。
基于此，减掉50个智商点，我还是安全的。我的智商会变成80，但仍然在正常的智商范围内，尽管这会让我明显的变得更迟钝。然而，这会让我得到5千万美元。先不考虑会如何影响到我与人互动的能力和我的个性，但我在学校的表现会差得多，可能无法胜任一份学业要求很高的工作。不过，这并不重要，因为，我现在即将成为一个拥有5千万美元的骄傲的有资产的人。
In conclusion, I’d say I would be willing to press the button twice. I’d say most people could afford to press the button once or twice as well, provided they are of average IQ to begin with. Hitting the button any more than that would probably also compromise one’s ability to enjoy the money they gain anyway.
不过，我并不想，让我的智力处于最低的那个阶层比例。但我相信我的智商达到110，智商下降20分，可以获得2千万的金钱补偿，剩下的智商也足够使用了。
我将能够完成学业并还清贷款，不过这会使我的智商安全地处于“正常”范围内，我怀疑我在社会中的运作能力会受到很大影响。
最后，我想说我愿意按下两次按钮。我想说，大多数人也可以按下一两次按钮，前提是他们一开始的智商处于一般水平。在这之后，继续按下按钮，也可能会损害一个人享受所获得金钱的能力。
I’d rather sell a right to press the button for some percent.
I am absolutely sure that there will be millions of those who agree to get 9.5 mln instead of 10 mln, if they get a chance this week. This humble commission of 5% would allow me to get some pocket money every day. :)
我选择出售按下按钮的权利，从中抽取百分之几的佣金。
我绝对相信，本周之内，将会有数百万人同意获得950万而不是1000万，来购买一个这样的机会。这个5%的微薄佣金可以让我每天都赚到一些钱。
I’m too selfish to push the button even once. There’s a lot of good I could do with 10,000,000 dollars, and, ethically, I should press the button. But I’m frustrated by my IQ as it stands. I wish it were higher.
Nothing gives me as much pleasure as mental work, and I want to be as agile mentally as possible. I am not willing to give up an inch of mental agility for all the money in the world.
我太自私了，我一次都不会按。我可以用1000万美元做很多好事，从道德上讲，我应该按下按钮。但我对自己的智商感到沮丧。我希望它更高。
没有什么比脑力劳动，更能给我带来快乐了，我想在精神上尽可能敏捷。哪怕给我世界上所有的钱，我也不愿意放弃一英寸的思维敏捷。
Once.
Your IQ can go back up if you work hard enough and study, but it would be slow moving. People’s IQ tend to drop as they get older, but if it can drop it can also rise.
I would retire, take university classes, read a lot of books, and focus on my health.
I would do all of this… from my beach house in Tahiti
一次。
如果你足够努力地工作和学习，你的智商可以回升，但这将是缓慢的。随着年龄的增长，人们的智商往往会下降，但如果智商能下降，也就可以上升。
我会退役，然后上大学课，读很多书，专注于我的健康。
我会在塔希提岛的海滨别墅里做这一切。
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Here's the question: if the button is pushed by something that isn't me, what happens to the money? What are the consequences?
I would set up a device that pushes the button for me, like an auto-clicker. So the money gets wired directly to my bank account. however, for the purpose of this answer, I will assume there are consequences.
问题是：如果按钮不是由我按下的，而是别的什么按下的，会如何？钱还会有吗？后果是什么？
我会设置一个为我按下按钮的设备，就像一个自动点击器。钱直接汇到我的银行账户。
然而，考虑到这个答案的目的，我认为会有后果。
Zero times.
Ten million dollars without the financial habits to build said ten million dollars would soon become more of a nuisance/omen than anything else.
People tend to forget how easy one can spend 10M USD.
You don’t need much money to live life reasonably well. Ten million would be an excess. If anything, there is a law of conservation of problems.
Problems cannot be created or destroyed, they are transformed.
零次。
1000万美元，如果你没有建立良好的财务习惯，那么1000万美元很快就会变得比其他任何事情都麻烦。
人们往往忘记了一个人要花掉1000万美元是多么容易。
你不需要多少钱就能过上相当好的生活。1000万将是多余的。如果说有什么不同的话，那就是问题守恒定律。
问题不能被制造或摧毁，它们会被转化。
People are quick to imagine how sudden wealth would fulfill their desires of luxurious consumption, without realizing the psychological cost of it.
Personally, I’ve been both rich and extremely poor. There are many variables which affect how people treat you and what kind of life you lead and money is one of the most important ones. The other three might be beauty, sanity and intelligence.
In the same way no one is ready to wake up as a genius, insane or god-like beautiful; no one is ready to wake up rich.
这个问题带来了突然的改变，但我还没有建立起相应的心里防御机制。
人们很快就能想象到，突然的财富能够如何的满足他们奢侈的欲望，而没有意识到这会给你带来心理代价。
就我个人而言，我既富有又极其贫穷。有很多变量会影响人们如何对待你，以及你过着什么样的生活，而金钱是最重要的变量之一。另外三个可能是美丽、理智和智慧。
同样，没有人做好了准备，在一醒来的时候，就成为天才、疯子或拥有天神般的美丽，也没有人已经准备好，在一醒来时就变得富有。
I’m going to cheat on this.
I don’t really want to lose any IQ points. I’m pretty smart and I’m proud of that. So what I’d do is go around to my closest family and friends, the ones that I trust, and tell them to push the button once. I’ll tell them that it will put $10,000,000 in their bank account, but if you press it twice, then there’s a 50% chance of death.
This is a lie, of course, but I won’t tell them about the IQ. This way, they press it only once and they don’t lose too many IQ points. I do care about them.
我要在这件事上作弊。
我真的不想失去任何智商。我很聪明，我为此感到骄傲。所以我要做的就是，去找我最亲密的家人和朋友，我信任的人，告诉他们按下一次按钮。我会告诉他们，按下一次，它会在他们的银行账户中存入1000万美元，但如果你按两次，那么死亡的几率为50%。
当然，这是一个谎言，但我不会告诉他们会扣智商。这样，他们只按一次，就不会损失太多智商。我真的很关心他们。
But my catch will be this: I tell them that if they want to press it, then they have to give me $1,000,000 out of their $10,000,000. I think that’s fair, and I’ll do this to like 20–30 people, and suddenly I have millionaire friends and a crap ton of money.
但是，你会问，这对我有什么帮助？首先，让我最亲密的核心圈子都成为有钱人真的很棒。
其次，我会告诉他们，如果他们想按按钮，那么他们必须在1000万美元中给我100万美元。我认为这是公平的，我会这样做，找到20-30个人，突然，我就有了一群有钱人朋友，和一大笔钱。
Once.
I would regret the loss of intelligence, but 10M would grant my wife and I a good life, and allow us the opportunity to do good works without worrying about our own well being for the rest of our lives.
I want to be able to devote my life to children in need, and the environment; but I also have this pressing urge to eat sometimes, and these aching teeth in my mouth… right now we give 6 months of each year to helping people in need, even though we are poor.
Money isn't everything, but neither is intelligence. I would rather be not as smart, but able to make a more effective improvement to the lives of those around me who need help.
一次。
我会为失去的智力感到遗憾，但1000万会给我和妻子一个美好的生活，让我们有机会去做更好的工作，而不用担心自己的余生。
我希望能够把我的一生奉献给有需要的孩子和环境保护。但我有时也有需要吃东西的欲望，有时嘴里的牙齿会疼……现在我们每年有6个月的时间来帮助有需要的人，尽管我们很穷。
金钱不是万能的，但智力也不是万能的。我宁愿不那么聪明，只要能够更有效地改善我周围需要帮助的人的生活。
At least five times. I would rather be rich and average to a little below average than smart and poor.
Well I'm actually not poor — or rich now, but smart enough to establish the kinds of trusts that mean that I and my family are permanently raised to the leisure class by my intelligence sacrifice.
至少五次。
我宁愿富裕，却只有平均水平的智商，或低于平均水平，也不愿意聪明却贫穷。
事实上，我现在并不贫穷，也不富有，但我足够聪明，能够建立起各种信任，这意味着我和我的家人，会因为我的智力牺牲，而永远提升到有闲阶层。
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Everyone gets this option? I wouldnt press anything. I'd take a few thousand dollars convert it into anything else , then go to Mexico for a few years to make kitten prosthetics while the rest of the world spams the IQ/USD ATM like an already lit elevator button. Wait for the world economies to stabilize from the duation of the USD, then sell my beanie babies at the adjusted price . Create a hospital farm of vegetable humans whose sole function is for their chest to press the button every time they inhale. Soon the paper the money is printed on becomes more valuable than the money itself. Assemble my army of kitten cyborgs---->conquer world.
This is exactly what would happen.
是每个人都可以做这个选择吗？
那么，我不会按任何东西。我会花几千美元把它换成其他物质，然后去墨西哥做几年小猫假肢，而世界其他地方则会像一个电梯按钮一样，亮了又灭，进行着智商和美元的转换。
我需要等待世界经济从美元贬值中稳定下来，然后以调整后的价格出售我囤积的物质。然后，我会去创建一个由植物人组成的医院农场，唯一需要做的，就是让病人每次呼吸的时候，胸部会按下一次按钮。很快，印刷钞票的纸张，会变得比钞票本身更有价值。
这时候，我要召集我的小猫半机械人大军---->开始征服世界。
这正是将要发生的事情。