wedrifid comments on Shortness is now a treatable condition - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 25 October 2009 05:22:40AM *  1 point [-]

I've worked around the FDA before. Making myself score 20 points less than I could on an IQ test would be simple by comparison.

Assuming I have a greater than average tendency to work around FDA restrictions then this restriction gives me an advantage.

(Unfortunately, some drugs that boost intellectual performance in the average case actually worsen performance in some who are already high performers.)