gwern comments on Limitless, a Nootropics-Centered Movie - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 15 March 2011 04:20:20PM 1 point [-]

Predictable, really. There's not much of a Hollywood movie story in 'guy takes a pill and becomes really really awesome. The End.'

Comment author: Broggly 15 March 2011 04:38:24PM 3 points [-]

Wait, so they're not making the Captain America movie now?

Comment author: NihilCredo 15 March 2011 05:03:31PM 2 points [-]

In fairness, in the 1940s nootropics would have been hyped as the salvation of humanity (and any potential side effects carefully swept under the carpet).

Comment author: gwern 15 March 2011 05:02:38PM 2 points [-]

Captain America isn't as cost-less as you think; to quote from the Marvel Wikia about the 'super-soldier serum' that makes a Captain America:

But the more powerful variants come with strange side-effects that may also include mental deficiencies.

(In one random comic - I have no idea which - that I read as a kid, S.H.I.E.L.D. had apparently put Captain America into cryogenic suspension specifically to stop the serum from killing the cap'n, in the hopes that the future could fix him. Quite a side-effect.)

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