taw comments on Ask LessWrong: Human cognitive enhancement now? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: taw 17 June 2009 01:33:31AM 5 points [-]

I would guess attention/focus/akrasia would be the best target area, as what we want now is very definitely different from what was useful in ancestral environment and there's no obvious reason why we cannot focus more.