A place to discuss potentially promising methods of intelligence amplification in the broad sense of general methods, tools, diets, regimens, or substances that boost cognition (memory, creativity, focus, etc.): anything from SuperMemo to Piracetam to regular exercise to eating lots of animal fat to binaural beats, whether it works or not. Where's the highest expected value? What's easiest to make part of your daily routine? Hopefully discussion here will lead to concise top level posts describing what works for a more self-improvement-savvy Less Wrong.
Lists of potential interventions are great, but even better would be a thorough analysis of a single intervention: costs, benefits, ease, et cetera. This way the comment threads will be more structured and organized. Less Wrong is pretty confused about IA, so even if you're not an expert, a quick analysis or link to a metastudy about e.g. exercise could be very helpful.
Added: Adam Atlas is now hosting an IA wiki: BetterBrains! Bookmark it, add to it, make it awesome.
Exercise: Effect on brain function:
Anyone have a better summary or source? The overall research emphasis on 'older adults' is understandable but personally unhelpful.
The papers I've looked at lead me to believe that cardiovascular/aerobic exercise is a lot more effective than e.g. strength training at increasing cognitive function. But I still don't know how how effective! Is there e.g. a 10% increase in short term memory, or 2%, or 20%? So many of the papers include only data about elderly people that aren't particularly relevant to my research.