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Why most supplements fail: IQ improvement skepticism, Yudkowsky & Bostrom’s heuristics, nootropics

--- title: The Algernon Argument description: "Why most supplements fail: IQ improvement skepticism, Yudkowsky & Bostrom's heuristics, nootropics" created: 2010-03-23 modified: 2018-06-03 status: finished confidence: highly likely importance: 10 css-extension: dropcaps-kanzlei ... That intelligence ([_g_](!W "g factor (psychometrics)")) in healthy people is nearly impossible to improve is clear from the failure of psychology to provide any such method. But *why* intelligence would be so constant is not as clear: many other cognitive abilities are improvable (like working memory), so why not in

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