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No, I wouldn't be much interested, I'd even pay to refuse the offer because I don't want the frustration of being unable to tell anyone.
You aren't willing to just console yourself with all the hookers, cars, drugs, holidays and general opulence you have been able to buy with the money you earned with your 'personal benefit only' intelligence? Or are we to take it that we can't even use the intelligence to benefit ourselves materially and can only use it to sit in a chair and think to ourselves?
I think that counts as "using your improved intelligence to affect the world". If it's allowed, then sure, sign me up.
And if even personal use is not allowed then I rapidly become indifferent between the choices (and to the question itself).
Affecting your mind is still a discernible effect...
Yes, you can reduce Wei's counterfactual to nonsensical if you try to pick it apart too far. Yet somehow I think that misses his point.
Worst-case (and probable) scenario, you get trapped inside your head and forced to watch your body act like an idiot. If you could engage in transactions, you could make lots of money and then selectively do business with people you like.
This part isn't the case. You can't game "can't use powers for personal gain" laws of magic - the universe always catches you. The reversed case would be analogous.