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Lumifer comments on Thermodynamics of Intelligence and Cognitive Enhancement - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 04 April 2014 01:18:01AM 1 point [-]

Metabolic syndrome, and hypothyroidism (both diseases of decreased cellular energy production) are correlated with reduced intelligence.

Hypothyroidism obviously has a lot more consequences than just decreased cellular energy production and as to the metabolic syndrome, I'm not sure I'd call it a "disease of decreased cellular energy production" at all, it looks much more like a breakdown of some regulatory systems to me.

Of course, there are many ways to harm brain (=reduce intelligence) which do not involve limiting ATP in the cells.