From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Thu Mar 06 2003 - 08:38:49 MST
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:28:50AM +0100, Max M wrote:
>
> What I would find usefull would be drugs with a single effect. Ie if
> I had a deadline I would pop one pill that made me focused and one
> that made fresh.
Provigil seems to be fairly close to what you describe.
> But unfortunately it seems that all the drug research is going for
> the more extreme effects. Or perhaps there simply isn't a black
> market for these kind of drugs, so there is no information
> avaliable. To bad really.
I think it is a kind of "black market failure". There is not much
money in manufacturing "smart" drugs for the current black
market, as it is reaping huge profits from the traditional drugs
and does not have the sales channels to the people that would
like even a black market smart drug. The legal market is moving
in the right direction very slowly, but here regulations make
drug development very costly and limit drugs to treat "diseases"
rather than natural conditions. That is why it is so important to
medicalize everything, because otherwise it may not be treated
with a drug.
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