jaibot comments on Literature-review on cognitive effects of modafinil (my bachelor thesis) - Less Wrong

33 Post author: wallowinmaya 08 January 2014 07:23PM

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 08 January 2014 10:17:00PM 1 point [-]

Because several studies suggest that modafinil may only provide substantial beneficial effects to individuals with low baseline performance, ultimately the big question remains if modafinil can really improve the cognitive performance of already high-functioning, healthy individuals.

Seems that we have few of those here. I wonder whether [so8res will tell us whether that is part of his dark arts}(http://lesswrong.com/lw/jg3/the_mechanics_of_my_recent_productivity/).

Being the first poster I will try a highly biased poll on this:

Submitting...

Comment author: jaibot 09 January 2014 07:15:55AM 1 point [-]

Request to taboo "high-functioning".

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 09 January 2014 08:24:17AM 1 point [-]

Generally I agree. But given that "high-functioning".was used in the OP we have to use it here to stay comparable.