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A few years ago I switched to eating yogurt at breakfast. I mix whole milk plain and vanilla yogurt with whole milk Greek yogurt. The vanilla is for taste but it has some added sugars. The other two have no added sugars so I haven’t had problems with blood sugar spikes. They have plenty of protein and fats and keep me satiated well until lunch. Another benefit - I lost about 30 pounds over 6 months and I’ve maintained this weight.

I remember in high school taking the ASVAB test (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery) which is aimed at finding a good match between your abilities and a potential role in the military.  However it was good at testing a wide variety of aptitudes, from physical to intellectual.

Also when I applied for a residency position in orthopedic surgery, one program gave all its applicants a test of visual-spatial ability.  One activity I remember on it was, given a folded out piece of paper with fold lines, identify the structure it would fold up int... (read more)

1Nicholas / Heather Kross
These are intriguing, thanks! But I guess I'm looking for things like these where each skill-section is unbundled. Like if each category of the ASVAB, were its own test.

How about a novel nootropic drug?  Or advancements in neurolink technology to enhance brain-computer interfaces?  Plus other biological and medical advancements that one could conceive of.  Weight bearing suits that ease repetitive stress and increase lifting capacity.  Personal climate controlled suits that make you comfortable anywhere.

2Daniel Kokotajlo
I do find it plausible that if we had some sort of cheap drug that made the user +2 SD's in IQ while also being more focused and creative, that would kick the economy into a much higher growth rate. Seems unlikely to happen though. Maybe narrow AI for bio R&D could do it. Maybe I'm overestimating how much it would take -- maybe only half an SD would do it?
3GeneSmith
I've made the argument in a post I wrote that we will see the first genetically engineering humans in the next decade. The technique will likely be embryo selection, which results in somewhat modest trait gains even with hundreds of embryos. However, the gains made by massive embryo selection (hundreds to thousands of embryos rather than ten) are still likely to exceed the effect of even the strongest nootropics.