New Study Finds Performance-Enhancing Drugs for Chess
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New Study Finds Performance-Enhancing Drugs for Chess
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#2Transhumanism sure has a long road ahead as far as people's attitudes toward self-enhancement.
Re: New Study Finds Performance-Enhancing Drugs for Chess
#3The study was done with rapid games, against computers, where they discarded human losses on time. Not very confident in those results. But hopefully the researcher gets the chance to try and reproduce and use classical time controls, and human vs. human opponents.
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#4I wonder how nicotine would fare.
Re: New Study Finds Performance-Enhancing Drugs for Chess
#5The study was done with rapid games, against computers, where they discarded human losses on time. Not very confident in those results. But hopefully the researcher gets the chance to try and reproduce and use classical time controls, and human vs. human opponents.
I think it would be too difficult/expensive to run enough trials to achieve statistical significance.
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#6Why is it surprising that nootropics exist? Half the good people in tech are on them. And there's nothing fucking wrong with that. "My body, my choice", as the slogan goes.
Re: New Study Finds Performance-Enhancing Drugs for Chess
#7Why is it surprising that nootropics exist? Half the good people in tech are on them. And there's nothing fucking wrong with that. "My body, my choice", as the slogan goes.
Other than amphetamines and caffiene, what would these 'half of tech'be on?
Re: New Study Finds Performance-Enhancing Drugs for Chess
#8Transhumanism sure has a long road ahead as far as people's attitudes toward self-enhancement.
In the context of formal tournaments, people would likely be more accepting if there were separate competition classes.
Re: New Study Finds Performance-Enhancing Drugs for Chess
#9Why is it surprising that nootropics exist? Half the good people in tech are on them. And there's nothing fucking wrong with that. "My body, my choice", as the slogan goes.
Other than amphetamines and caffiene, what would these 'half of tech'be on?
Modafinil and nicotine. Cocaine too, I imagine, although that's more a sales guy thing.
Re: New Study Finds Performance-Enhancing Drugs for Chess
#10Transhumanism sure has a long road ahead as far as people's attitudes toward self-enhancement.
In the context of formal tournaments, people would likely be more accepting if there were separate competition classes.
That would be a huge step in the right direction. I actually think we should do the same thing for athletic competitions.