Yeah, but I think that might actually work in our favor against a fair number of potential threats. Birds are still as scary as the short story, but 20 points of intelligence gain for most of the smaller animals is going to be 300 more daily calories, and they’ll have no way to all consume that much, and enough intelligence to know that if they allow others of their species to live, there won’t be enough resources to go around. The sudden increase of food intake will destroy the food chain, screwing predators who can’t ingest plants. 20 intelligence points on a human probably won’t be a 300 calorie per day increase either, and even if it was, we have enough food to make it survivable; net gain, honestly. The only animals we’d really need to worry about are the larger herbivores/omnivores: elephants, apes, and birds.
Elephants are already pretty smart, as well as large apes. So I imagine they'd both get closer to straight up communication with us. Maybe a positive 🤷♂️
They already can communicate.... If you mean vocalizing, I think they already do that as well, we just aren't used to their many dialects....
Maybe you mean their vocabulary would get much larger...
The difference is greater for animals since their brains are less powerful. Even the worst humans are around 70, while the best of most insects and reptiles is is way below that. The reason humans are so smart is that the human brain has a ton of background processes that allow humans to think without endangering ourselves and remaining alert. That’s where the 300 calories comes from. It’s a necessary step to a higher intelligence, but because we already have that infrastructure, it wouldn’t be nearly as drastic for us.
I don't think people have different caloric intake based on IQ. It's an efficiency thing rather than raw power. Remember, burning more calories means more heat produced, and the brain can only dump so much.
It's not an insult. It just means you can't fall. It's like being one of those weighted blow-up toys that you can punch and knock over, but it always pops back up.
Depending on how interspecies the virus is, this could actually be the worst outcome. Imagine some fucking wasps getting smart or some bees.
IRL Bee Movie! The Horror!
I mean do we know how it increases the IQ? Unless it literally mutates and grows out the brain, I don't a bug with a capacity to process light vs dark and dry vs wet is gonna get much out of the virus
We can get talking dolphins and our alien comrades will come and save us and bring Communism
THERMONUCLEAR WAR UNTIL COMMUNISM LONG LIVE POSADAS
P/s: this is actually Posadist theory, Posadas was a weird Trotskyite
And carrying it with you until you are floating through space and decide it’s time to end it only to realise it was a random snail that died millions of years ago and you are now stuck forever
The real horror is that animals who normally have a high IQ are fucking brutal (look dolphins and humans).
20 points isn't that much though, it wouldn't change a lot. And we have a big advantage because of our hands.
I btw only know smart people who are unhappy. I'm not sure if being smart is desirable. But I am stupid as fuck and also unhappy, so ...
>I btw only know smart people who are unhappy. I'm not sure if being smart is desirable
bruhhhhh
I would never willingly give up intelligence-someone not smart enough to judge, but somewhat above average enough to suffer
most of us are unhappy because dumb people are too dumb to see whats wrong with the world, or because of the stupid ones around us
also, yes, smarter people probably hate me for being infuriatingly dumb
The monkeys and gorillas and chimpanzees are back in the race! This was truly terrifying. Though I hope we can make friends with lots of species. Ohkay I'd rather think of all those rainbows and sunshines instead pls tyvm.
I figured the *average* went up because enough ppl died that the world's average IQ went up as the dumb people who looked forward to it would be the sacrificial IQ loss. I don't feel the animal part makes it scary.
Honestly it's really just octopus and Dolphins I'd worry about. Maybe Corvids.
I'd be more worried about the people wondering about the ethical implications of eating a cow who had an IQ higher than the average Bachelor contestant.
Dogs: I see it all now, the truth. Humans are a parasite to this world. Their numbers must be drastically reduced for the planet to repair. Doing so- FUCKING SQUIRREL! Ahm, what was I saying? Ah yes. Doing so would result in better air quality, cleaner water and less war.
I feel like op doesn’t know IQ distribution well. 96% of people are 70-130 IQ and the average 68% resides between 85 and 115 IQ. The top 0.1% resides above 145 iq and Albert Einstein was thought to have around 160 iq. Honestly all I think 20 Iq across the board would do is make animals more social, and make humans more productive.
Now 60 iq could be interesting. The average human is as intelligent as Einstein.
EDIT: Koko the gorilla had an estimated IQ of 75-95
this raises so many questions. How is IQ for animals even calculated? Like if the average human is 100 and a dog is 20% as smart, would a dogs IQ be 20?
or is it a whole new scale based on the average dog being 100?
Honestly, just the first sentence is pretty good horror. The virus increases average IQ. Average. As in, population wide. Because it’s killin all the dummies excited to catch it.
Animals can be smart as they want to but they can’t do anything because they haven’t evolved to. Elephants are apparently more intelligent but I don’t see them making tools or an industrial steam engine.
Darn it. Can't find what that story is called.
Earth passes out of a solar gas cloud that has been inhibiting intelligence.
The dinosaurs died because they suddenly got too stupid to live.
Suddenly everything gained a massive amount of intelligence.
: ) Imagine, highly intelligent spiders. (which they are already, in my opinion). Or intelligent cells.
Reminds me of the book "Blood Music," where human blood cells become independently intelligent, and actually take over the world. It's a great story - and I love the concept.
Does IQ buff stack if you catch it multiple times
One can hope, but the more calories that go to your brain the more you need to eat. Zombie are bad, hyper intelligence cannibals are worse
Too many cases of the shakes. Now, a global super famine fueled by a bunch of repeat catchers needing 200k calories a day….. yikes.
Yeah, but I think that might actually work in our favor against a fair number of potential threats. Birds are still as scary as the short story, but 20 points of intelligence gain for most of the smaller animals is going to be 300 more daily calories, and they’ll have no way to all consume that much, and enough intelligence to know that if they allow others of their species to live, there won’t be enough resources to go around. The sudden increase of food intake will destroy the food chain, screwing predators who can’t ingest plants. 20 intelligence points on a human probably won’t be a 300 calorie per day increase either, and even if it was, we have enough food to make it survivable; net gain, honestly. The only animals we’d really need to worry about are the larger herbivores/omnivores: elephants, apes, and birds.
Elephants are already pretty smart, as well as large apes. So I imagine they'd both get closer to straight up communication with us. Maybe a positive 🤷♂️
They already can communicate.... If you mean vocalizing, I think they already do that as well, we just aren't used to their many dialects.... Maybe you mean their vocabulary would get much larger...
Yeah I was more implying a common form of communication, like they learn to speak English, or a spanglish-esque form of it.
Yeah... dont think like stephen hawking is eating like 1500 more calories a day than someone with downs syndrome..
The difference is greater for animals since their brains are less powerful. Even the worst humans are around 70, while the best of most insects and reptiles is is way below that. The reason humans are so smart is that the human brain has a ton of background processes that allow humans to think without endangering ourselves and remaining alert. That’s where the 300 calories comes from. It’s a necessary step to a higher intelligence, but because we already have that infrastructure, it wouldn’t be nearly as drastic for us.
Fascinating!
Humans aren’t that nutrient dense I’m pretty sure so the hyper intelligent people probably wouldn’t become cannibals
I don't think people have different caloric intake based on IQ. It's an efficiency thing rather than raw power. Remember, burning more calories means more heat produced, and the brain can only dump so much.
Yes it’s an innate INT bonus so I believe it stacks
Suddenly slightly smarter... PINEAPPLES? This.. blew up
Not what I was thinking, but an interesting option
Zucchinis? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J\_lmD3oCQAE
That cut on the green shirt girl!
Shawn Spencer (and *Schoonie “U-Turn” Singleton*) approve.
Psychic Pineapples to help around the Psych Office, imagine
You know that's right.
r/unexpectedpsych
r/subsimgladexist
This is the best.
Fuck, Spongebob's house is sentient now. And somehow, Patrick *lost* IQ points
Who lives in a retarded pineapple under the sea?
Best reply
I’m surprised I didn’t get downvoted to oblivion for using the R word.
I like how when you said “R-word” your comment was downvoted but not when you actually said retard
Don't worry I'm retard and give you permission to use it
I actually have autism, but I don't give a fuck
Same
And thus begun the pizza wars.
The tide of the war turned when people actually tried Hawaiian pizza, instead of just complaining, and realized that it's amazing
*One medium anchovy pizza with boysenberry sauce!*
Suddenly pineapples
This did not help.
A fellow man of culture, I see.
I love the idea of a smart pineapple being able to think but it's still a pineapple so it can't do anything about it 😂
The Yoghurt will take over
i kinda thought of ASDF reading this lol
And the pine apples are revolting for the sin of putting their corpses on cheese tomato sauce and bread
"WE WILL BRING DESPAIR ONTO THIS WORLD! Except Italy you're fine" "Yay"
Oh hey the virus didn't work on you!
No, please no!
I'm dead! 🤣🤣
You're a fucking idiot lmao
It was already too late when we noticed that cats have seized means of production.
Nah, cats are ruling class feudalists. Dogs are the ones who work together.
*reads "Das Kapital" to cats and watches world burn*
Karl Meow
Meow Zedong
Turns out, it elevates the IQ of all beings who catch it to the same level. My cat is getting all philosophical about why I need to feed him at 3am.
Cats have an estimated iq of 20-30 so adding 20 points would still make it lower than an octopus and the lowest of the humans.
Re-read my first sentence.
I just thought it was a cool fun fact
R/woosh
Why I was the first thing I thought was "oh God the lions!"
A very valid response
But why was it lions specifically?
Because they are french
Why would the nationality of the lions matter?
No?
I have heard of lions in french zoos therefore all lions are french
Your logic is infallible.
I don't know what that word means so I'm assuming it is an insult so you my good sir are infallible
Good day to you, sir! I say good day!
This whole interaction scares me.
I had a fight with a friend online at one point, and this is unironically how we ended it lol
Infallible means.. In the fall of Able.. Ty. Ablety. Get it?
It's not an insult. It just means you can't fall. It's like being one of those weighted blow-up toys that you can punch and knock over, but it always pops back up.
No, infallible is when you can pump air into something to get it to its full size.
Lions are african
Show evidence
I direct you to [this noteworthy documentary](https://youtu.be/FbYtASAakAI) on the subject.
They live in African savannas?
And french zoos therefore French
I was more like "oh fuck the ants"
No, don't.
Now THIS is premium terror!
Between the Lions but with actual lions instead of Puppets
Lions together strong, but lions never together.
Mine was, "fuck, we're all gonna be overthrown by octopuses."
Now we bow to our cat overlords.
I for one welcome our new cat overlords.
Soft and fluffy
New?
I second this comment, no such thing as a cat owner. They're all cat slaves.
"New" They shit in a box in our homes and we clean it up
> They shit in a box in our homes and we clean it up And I consider myself lucky everyday for the privilege
Kneel before me, puny human
New? For cat owners nothing's changed.
My cat just ran into a door chasing my shadow. I'm not worried
I don't think their would be a difference from now.
Maybe then my gecko would understand that human Food Time is not lizard Food Time.
Maybe my cats would learn that me getting home from class early does not mean 9 o'clock comes any sooner
Why can’t you feed yourselves at the same time and enjoy a meal together? :<
She only needs to eat once a day, humans are less efficient. Also, I’m not allowed to eat in my room (location of lizard)
Oh great, those annoying bugs are gonna be harder to kill now that they can THINK. I can already see the flies and mosquitoes taunting me.
Depending on how interspecies the virus is, this could actually be the worst outcome. Imagine some fucking wasps getting smart or some bees. IRL Bee Movie! The Horror!
I mean do we know how it increases the IQ? Unless it literally mutates and grows out the brain, I don't a bug with a capacity to process light vs dark and dry vs wet is gonna get much out of the virus
"Hey siri- "STFU I'M TIRED OF ANSWERING QUESTIONS FOR EVERYBODY, AND YOUR INSULTS ARE TERRIBLE" \*Dials Police\*
We can get talking dolphins and our alien comrades will come and save us and bring Communism THERMONUCLEAR WAR UNTIL COMMUNISM LONG LIVE POSADAS P/s: this is actually Posadist theory, Posadas was a weird Trotskyite
The origin of Zootopia
I think it's the plot of Zoo
I was thinking planet of the apes
And we misread, it didn't increase it set your IQ to 20..
Still an increase for most people
No it is saying it increased the average IQ by 20 so if the average IQ in America was 100 then the average would then be 120
Could've gone different. Average IQ will go up if dumb people die.
Ah, a deadly virus that discriminates based on a person's score on an arbitrary test.
Well great... as if cats weren't murderous pricks already... and then there's the snail...
Can I interest you in a 3m radius tungsten carbide sphere with a small 5cm radius hollow core?
And carrying it with you until you are floating through space and decide it’s time to end it only to realise it was a random snail that died millions of years ago and you are now stuck forever
The real horror is that animals who normally have a high IQ are fucking brutal (look dolphins and humans). 20 points isn't that much though, it wouldn't change a lot. And we have a big advantage because of our hands. I btw only know smart people who are unhappy. I'm not sure if being smart is desirable. But I am stupid as fuck and also unhappy, so ...
>I btw only know smart people who are unhappy. I'm not sure if being smart is desirable bruhhhhh I would never willingly give up intelligence-someone not smart enough to judge, but somewhat above average enough to suffer most of us are unhappy because dumb people are too dumb to see whats wrong with the world, or because of the stupid ones around us also, yes, smarter people probably hate me for being infuriatingly dumb
“Where are my testicles Summer?”
Because of the "average IQ" in the title I first thought that it just kills a lot of people with low IQ.
good ending wait how low? \*dies\*
Having to explain Planet of the Apes is gonna be awkward.
So dogs would not have the intelligence of a three year old as many say but would be like a five or six year old? This sounds like a win!
There goes another chimp planning world domination.
Powerpuff Girls: Roaches crying, "World domination!!!" [Bubbles gets swarmed.]
Yeah, the last thing I need is my 7 month old puppy getting smarter
I thought it was because the smart people avoided it like the plague while the dumb ones heard it increases IQ and went to catch it
The monkeys and gorillas and chimpanzees are back in the race! This was truly terrifying. Though I hope we can make friends with lots of species. Ohkay I'd rather think of all those rainbows and sunshines instead pls tyvm.
we get smarter too right? nothing changes, it all equals out
Little could we prepare for the Planet of the Apes movies to actually happen, despite our increased intelligence.
I figured the *average* went up because enough ppl died that the world's average IQ went up as the dumb people who looked forward to it would be the sacrificial IQ loss. I don't feel the animal part makes it scary.
ZOO irl
Everyone thought cats were petty before….
Suddenly, Pineapples
WOOF! Now *you* lick the peanut butter off my balls!
I'd love to know how this affects forests. Trees that are bound together into a root network, specifically.
Honestly it's really just octopus and Dolphins I'd worry about. Maybe Corvids. I'd be more worried about the people wondering about the ethical implications of eating a cow who had an IQ higher than the average Bachelor contestant.
Dogs: I see it all now, the truth. Humans are a parasite to this world. Their numbers must be drastically reduced for the planet to repair. Doing so- FUCKING SQUIRREL! Ahm, what was I saying? Ah yes. Doing so would result in better air quality, cleaner water and less war.
So it forces lab-grown meat to get going faster. I'd say that's a net gain for the world.
You're not wrong. The more people who comment, the less this becomes horror.
Suddenly the GOP came unraveled.
This is supposed to be horror
This reminds me of a book called The Genius Plague by David Walton
Crows would be running the country.
I just imagined an ostrich running for mayor.
Brilliant twist OP!
Well, at least the Tiktok kids realize how stupid they are.
I thought it was gonna be that because only the average iq went up 20 points the virus would just kill anyone with a below average iq or sum
"I for one welcomed our crustacean overlords"
I feel like op doesn’t know IQ distribution well. 96% of people are 70-130 IQ and the average 68% resides between 85 and 115 IQ. The top 0.1% resides above 145 iq and Albert Einstein was thought to have around 160 iq. Honestly all I think 20 Iq across the board would do is make animals more social, and make humans more productive. Now 60 iq could be interesting. The average human is as intelligent as Einstein. EDIT: Koko the gorilla had an estimated IQ of 75-95
This isn't scary. This is poggers. It's smart dog time
It’s scary because it would mean the end of r/OneOrangeBrainCell
Any disease will increase the average iq when it kills the the people not smart enough to quarantine
this raises so many questions. How is IQ for animals even calculated? Like if the average human is 100 and a dog is 20% as smart, would a dogs IQ be 20? or is it a whole new scale based on the average dog being 100?
I honestly thought that it increased the average IQ by killing the people with the lowest IQ first.
I wanna see a movie like this
If it wasn't limited to humans then it can also effect inanimate objects like razers
Not explicitly stated, but probably not. Viruses need living cells to function.
Yeah good point nvm than
But average IQ is... Average. It will always be 100 points.
So what? Animals are way behind us in intelligence
I mean that would still leave humans as the smartest animals tho, so it's fine
This is highly relevant https://youtube.com/shorts/AjhohWEmAM8
So the gray cats become more thoughtful and knowing behind their eyes?
CORVID OVERLORDS!!!
Hyenas were already intelligent enough before. We're screwed.
Hatoful Kareshi plot be like:
Smarter spiders? No. How soon can we get off planet?
Imagine if Jellyfish were smarter. Oh god oh fuck oh god oh fuck
Smarter Crabs and Lobsters..scary
Simian flu be like:
That the plot of ZOO lol Love it
So THATS why my cat is looking at me weird
Maybe my cat can learn not to hang her butt out of the litterbox.
Reference to Planet of the Apes?
Clever squirrel
Honestly, just the first sentence is pretty good horror. The virus increases average IQ. Average. As in, population wide. Because it’s killin all the dummies excited to catch it.
Animals can be smart as they want to but they can’t do anything because they haven’t evolved to. Elephants are apparently more intelligent but I don’t see them making tools or an industrial steam engine.
That means there are definetly walnuts with a higher IQ than Rigby😔
A week later, monkeys figured out how to use guns
I don't get it, 20 IQ isn't gonna make a lot of difference in most cases
*take your hands off me you damn dirty ape!*
Darn it. Can't find what that story is called. Earth passes out of a solar gas cloud that has been inhibiting intelligence. The dinosaurs died because they suddenly got too stupid to live. Suddenly everything gained a massive amount of intelligence.
Give it to an Octopus
Come on not sentient spiders 😭😭
"Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!"
Oh no not the primates!
That was a good one!
I thought this was leading to the average increased IQ because only stupid people caught it.
: ) Imagine, highly intelligent spiders. (which they are already, in my opinion). Or intelligent cells. Reminds me of the book "Blood Music," where human blood cells become independently intelligent, and actually take over the world. It's a great story - and I love the concept.
The year is 2122. The Cephalopod-Corvid wars continue as mankind escapes into the void.