Heh. Under some circumstances, intelligence and will are inversely
proportional to each other. Check my guide to intelligence enhancement
using current technology, under "Countersphexist".
http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/algernon.html#counter
The emotion of frustration greatly reduces your will to continue, but
also invokes the cognitive functions of causal analysis and creative
design.
I don't know if this would work as a general rule, but somebody ought to
check and see if willpower varies with the inverse of SAT scores. (Just
SAT scores - IQ tests, for example, won't work.)
P.S: I'm not a smoker, but I am an Algernon.
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sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
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