There no complex tests to prove that drug enhances cognition. In papers modafinil compared to caffeine at some basic tests. It's hard to sell something positioned as enhancement. FDA. It's easier to make a caffeine gum or energy drink.
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> It's hard to sell something positioned as enhancement.FDA can you go into more detail about this because I believe it gets to the crux of
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Companies probably avoid possible risks with law suits. There also risk of getting it approved and wasting money on development.
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So why has the government decided that cognitive enhancers are something that should not be approved, but that gender reassignment should get the green light, insurance coverage, offered on the NHS, etc?pic.twitter.com/n9OYiwk2N3
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People who really want nootropics just buy them on the black market, then stop there. That's much harder to do for surgeries, so people who want gender reassignment surgery were better incentivized to fight for it.
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> gender reassignment surgery .. better incentivized Perhaps, or perhaps it's that gender reassignment surgery fits into an ascendant political narrative and gets an easy ride and easy £££, whereas cognitive enhancement is opposed to this narrative and gets shut down.
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Again there is a mistake theory angle and a conflict theory angle, but to me the mistake theory hypothesis looks quite contrived. There are a lot of patients lobbying for more treatment and more money for their thing. Many in desperate need w/ no medical progress (e.g. CFS)
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And yet out of all these groups, the one that gets money and an easy regulatory ride is gender reassignment, and this apparently has nothing to do with the political power of the trans/SJW lobby?
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Mistake vs conflict theory don't exactly carve nature at the joints. Conflict driven is real but the result of incentives in group dynamics; ostentatiously hating / harming the outgroup gets you status. Mistake driven is also real - where incentives don't match desired outcomes
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These converge to give results; example of cog enhancement - people who care about that are handicapped in signalling competitions so those people don't get promoted at FDA. The result is FDA is prone to making "mistakes" in the direction of the group think ex replication crisis
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Ok so there is a continuum between the two. What % of the outcome is chance/bad luck versus what % is enemy action. Then there is the issue that generically, problems do not simply solve themselves. Things are broken and progress usually requires some group to push it through.
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So if there is no politically powerful group that pushes for cognitive enhancement, then we should not expect progress (and indeed there hasn't really been any AFAIK). Human genetic engineering & eugenics is very clearly a victim of enemy action; pharmaceuticals maybe?
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