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Cognitive Enhancement Drugs
Neil Halelamien writes "The LA Times has an article on various cognitive enhancement drugs which are currently undergoing clinical trials. These include ampakines which amplify the strength of electrical signals between neurons, HT-0712 which enhances the transfer from short-term to long-term memory, and gene therapy which revitalizes existing neurons. The article also describes successes with the drug Modafinil, which seems to sharpen attention and mental agility. The side effects of these sorts of drugs are not yet fully known, although many neuroscientists think that they may lead to 'mental clutter' or task-obsessiveness."
You mean it will make me think like a woman?!
Sorry, I couldn't resist. No offense to all you lovely geek ladys out there.
Shut the fuck up with the "I for one welcome ..." jokes. The fact that this got a 5 interesting is turning me the same color as the awful IT section color scheme.
Can we start talking about tech again? Or do we have to keep rehashing the same tired jokes? If it doesn't get any better, I'm going to get some god damned grits and pour them down my pants.
The more you know, the less you understand.
This is absolute hogwash. What happens to the rich is they get lazy. And the lazy don't exercise their brain or bodies and they get weak. If there's one thing history teaches us it is that through competition and conflict and struggle humanity thrives. We need adversity, and we crave it, and it strengthens us.
You can't buy intelligence. You can buy the appearance of intelligence, you can buy credentials, you can buy your way into accolades and titles, but that doesn't mean you are smart. What happens is that these people begin to conglomerate and pat each other on the back and tell each other they are doing a good job when they are miserable failures.
Then they get setup for failure. Someone smarter, faster, more adaptive comes along and rocks their world to pieces. That's what's happening to the democrat party. They are sitting on their success of FDR, and haven't realized that sixty years of being second fiddle has given the republican party the ability and the blood and the intelligence to engineer a revolution. The funny thing is that the same thing happened to the republican party sixty years ago, led by an upstart called FDR!
I keep thinking back to the Chinese illiterati writing poetry and drawing pictures, when Genghis Khan to the north was gathering troops and fighting for his life and for his future. When the two forces met, who was the conqueror? The well-bred rich illiterati with thousands of years of experience of ruling over millions of people? Or the Mongol hordes led by a brilliant general who knew how to win battles decisively? If the Chinese were so smart, they would've been training like the Greeks and the Romans and the British in their heyday.
The radical sect of Islam would either see you dead or "reverted" to Islam.
If you have a real medical problem, you probably shouldn't see a doctor, for at least two reasons:
(1) You probably can't afford it, and
(2) There's about a 10% chance he or she will kill you.
If, on the other hand, you have some minor, trivial, and standardized medical problem, for which any required drugs are long since off-patent, you'll do about equally well with a physician or a nurse practitioner, or looking stuff up on web sites and getting drugs from pakistan.
When you really need someone with some skill is when you need some cutting done. Especially the
anesthesiologist. Of course, you still probably can't afford it, and should just die instead,
but if you're one of those lucky few who make enough money to justify the inevitable massive loss, do, please get the best surgical team money can buy.
-I like my women like I like my tea: green-