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John_Maxwell_IV comments on Thoughts on the January CFAR workshop - Less Wrong Discussion

37 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 31 January 2013 10:16AM

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 01 February 2013 08:42:58AM *  0 points [-]

Offering everyone modafinil or something at the beginning of future workshops might help with this.

Probably better to offer 1/4 of the participants modafinil or something to see if affected more than just wakefulness. E.g. a friend with lots of modafinil experience reports that modafinil may "make it too easy to work enthusiastically on slightly the wrong thing".