[extropy-chat] Moving on (was CF research)

[Keith Henson]

At 08:31 AM 2/12/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>On 2/11/07, Keith Henson <hkhenson at rogers.com> wrote:
> > Have you considered an intermediate step?  An intelligence amplifier that
> > could build engineering models and keep track of details would be of
> > enormous help.  Not to mention being worth a fortune.
>
>Can you further qualify "intelligence amplifier"?

A slide rule is an intelligence amplifier.  Computers more so, 
Google/Wikipedia etc.  I have been working on a space elevator design 
recently and the nitpicking details are painful to keep track of.

>I imagine a concoction of chemicals that when consumed by
>already-smart people, makes them more likely to have periods of highly
>lucid creativity and focused output towards a goal.  This too would be
>worth a fortune, but does not scale as well as computer hardware due
>to the relative scarcity of already-smart people.  :)

Hmm.

Keith