Hey Billy, I see you're old enough now to realize that which you would have known earlier if you would have had enough drinks at my age! Nevertheless: true.
This reminds me of a story about the famous mathematician Paul Erdös:
"After 1971 he also took amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham) bet him $500 that he could not stop taking the drug for a month.[4] Erds won the bet, but complained during his abstinence that mathematics had been set back by a month: "Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper." After he won the bet, he promptly resumed his amphetamine habit." [wikipedia.org]
It is an interesting question what would happen if an 'intelligence boosting' drug were to be found.. I think people would have to take it, or be 'outsmarted' by the rest of the society.
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Hey Billy, I see you're old enough now to realize that which you would have known earlier if you would have had enough drinks at my age! Nevertheless: true.
This reminds me of a story about the famous mathematician Paul Erdös:
:)
"After 1971 he also took amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham) bet him $500 that he could not stop taking the drug for a month.[4] Erds won the bet, but complained during his abstinence that mathematics had been set back by a month: "Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper." After he won the bet, he promptly resumed his amphetamine habit." [wikipedia.org]
It is an interesting question what would happen if an 'intelligence boosting' drug were to be found..
I think people would have to take it, or be 'outsmarted' by the rest of the society.
Well, I'll have to do with my coffee for now
... we declare the vote invalid and cash the money :)