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Nick Bostrom: 3 ways to advance science
Nick Bostrom on why we should invest time and money into developing cognitive enhancement technologies:

"No contribution would be more generally applicable than one that improves the
performance of the human brain. Much more effort ought to be devoted to the
development of techniques for cognitive enhancement, be they drugs to improve
concentration, mental energy, and memory, or nutritional enrichments of infant formula
to optimize brain development. Society invests vast resources in education in an attempt to improve students’ cognitive abilities. Why does it spend so little on studying the biology of maximizing the performance of the human nervous system?"
11 votes  by rmijic  on 2008-03-07  1 comment   
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wal    1 votes   Saturday, March 08, 2008 at 3:50 AM
Great insight. A similar argument could be made for life extension: increasing the average healthy life span by one day can add millions of productive working days and generate huge economic returns.
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