Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-4-2009

[andrewducker]

• Scientises engineer a smarter rat
  Memory three times as long as other rats.
  (tags: genetics memory neuroscience animals intelligence biology)
• Feeling grumpy is good for you
  Miserable people are better at decision-making and less gullible. Cheerfulness fosters creativity, gloominess breeds attentiveness and careful thinking.
  (tags: emotions psychology)
• David Nutt's views on drugs classification
  And terribly sensible they are too, should you believe in drug classification.
  (tags: drugs politics science)

Comments

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Happy, more creative but also more gullible works for me. However, that rat has a gene tweak that I really want. Damn we're getting close to serious intelligence amplification, it currently looks like IA will win out over AI, which definitely seems like a safer sort of transhuman future.

[simont]

This is making me think of a Radiohead synthesised voice reading out

happier, more creative
more gullible
not thinking too much
...