[extropy-chat] Cognition enhancement in fiction

[Michael Anissimov]

On 10/5/06, Anders Sandberg <asa at nada.kth.se> wrote:
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"Understand" by Ted Chiang is a real winner.

http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/under.htm

And the following is not about cognition enhancement per se, because
the main character already starts off with extreme rationality... but
it does brush on many of the subjects you'd typically see in a story
about intelligence enhancement:

"On Self-Delusion and Bounded Rationality" by Scott Aaronson

http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/selfdelusion.html

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