[extropy-chat] Singularity Drugs

[Martin Striz]

On 4/14/06, A B <austriaaugust at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Are there any prospects that before implants, BCIs (brain-computer
> interfaces), uploading, or AGI (and Molecular Nanotechnology) come around
> that any really kick-ass 'smart-drugs' are created and used? My impression
> is that today's 'smart-drugs' confer only modest benefits, if any, to normal
> healthy people. But maybe a really effective one will enter the pipeline
> within the near future, that can objectively increase intelligence (by
> safely increasing firing rates?). A kind of a poor man's version of
> distributed nanobot enhancers - possibly made from nanoparticles or just
> plain old pharmacology.

Quantitatively, you could get marginal improvements based on blood
flow, firing rate, signal speed, etc.  To achieve any signficant
improvements, particularly to get qualitatively new kinds of thinking,
you'll have to rewire the system.

Martin