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So, what do people think of "focus"? (A drug treatment regime used by the "emergents" to turn people into monomaniacs.) Vinge goes out of his way to show how
by rst 16y ago
So, what do people think of "focus"? (A drug treatment regime used by the "emergents" to turn people into monomaniacs.)
Vinge goes out of his way to show how it could be abused --- but I sometimes get the feeling that people crunching in early-startup mode would willingly use it, at least for a time, if they had it...
- spaznode 16y agoIt's called adderall, I'm a fan.
- arethuza 16y agoGreg Egan has a similar concept ("neural mods") in his book Quarantine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_%28novel%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_%28novel%29
- pontifier 16y agoWhat I thought was extremely interesting was the way the way the some focused were used... as components behaving as the intelligence behind computational tasks. The creator of Mechanical Turk undoubtedly read this book... I sure thought about creating something like that after I read it.
- Vivtek 16y agoIf I had a timer on it, I'd sign up for Focus in a heartbeat.
- bonafidehan 16y agoThe concept of focus was mesmerizing. It's well-accepted that our brains do amazing things under the covers, and the idea of bending our brains to a single focus speaks volumes about human intelligence and genius. Very evocative.