Jordan_Fisher comments on My Childhood Death Spiral - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 September 2008 03:42AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (106)

Sort By: Old

You are viewing a single comment's thread.

Comment author: Jordan_Fisher 16 September 2008 01:25:26AM 0 points [-]

There are certain diseases which cause 'brain fog' that could give insight into trade offs of gaining/losing intelligence. I'm cold (literally, often less than 96 degrees) and it effects my cognition at times. The drop in IQ is probably much greater than 1 point. Personally I would do anything short of violence to prevent it.

Interestingly certain quantities of alcohol seem to increase my intelligence, mostly in areas I normally suffer in (like word recall, especially in a foreign language).