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AI Alignment & AGI Fire Alarm - Connor Leahy
Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)
Do Smart Drugs Improve Your Intelligence?
Connor: Smart drugs do not improve your intelligence. They improve your processing speed. But if you do an IQ test after taking a bunch of madaffanil or rasatams or amphetamines or whatever, you will not score better on that intelligence because you're fucking high. The way it's running is a million times speed. It has a million times more time to hang out in the shower. And we know there is a giant correlation between people's IQs and the kind of quality of their myelin sheathing which is directly affecting how fast signals can travel through your neurons.
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