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Suppose you are a smart person, and someone developed a drug that makes anyone who takes it 30 IQ points smarter. The FDA rules that this drug can be given only to people with an IQ at least 20 points below yours.
Would you be happy about this development?
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.)