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How do I become less dumb?

>> No.9823384

>>9823380
Nootropics

https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/03/01/2016-nootropics-survey-results/
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/02/16/nootropics-survey-results-and-analysis/
https://www.braintropic.com/

>> No.9823387

read the classics, do mathematics, stop watching news/social media/any current popular thing , learn a craft

>> No.9823403

>>9823387
In what way will math make me less dumb? I get why literature would, as it contains practical knowledge. But what practical knowledge with math give me? I understand that it will make me less ignorant, bit ignorant doesnt necessarily equals dumb.

>> No.9823414

>>9823403
It teaches you to think logically and abstractly. You don't need to become a mathematician, but learning propositional logic, set theory, knowing how to prove something by induction and by contradiction. These are basic skills that develop your brain. You don't use them every day in the sense that you're not proving stuff in real life, but you will be able to follow complex arguments more easily.

>> No.9823418

>>9823380
Find something you like and learn about it. You'll learn faster and with less stress when interested in a topic. Why waste your time doing geek shit you don't care about just to appear smart?

>> No.9823419

>>9823384
Unsubstantiated pseudoscience.

>> No.9823431

>>9823403
when you learn something you tend to try to reshape the entire world in it's image. if you learn a lot of things you begin to control this bias.


eg. the mathematicians and computer scientists who built computers and networks thought they were creating a tool to liberate mankind from the drudgery of working in a factory doing repetitive manufactorium minutia. they just replaced the assembly line with the keyboard and mouse. they were idealists and socialists who did not understand how their inventions would impact the economics and social games people play in the real world, and of course they did not monetize correctly and barely get any credit in the modern day for their contributions.

there are two extreme positions you can fall into if you read or learn a bit too much- one is some kind of rapacious desire to control the world because you have discovered the perfect shape to align it to. the other is a feeling of helpless nostalgia and emptiness because you are living in a time that does not resemble the various abstractions and beautiful symmetries you have come to appreciate from your education.


the correct approach is the asian one, namely of pragmatic forwardness of direction towards something better than the present while keeping some harmony and sympathy for the past which led you here. this is why so many intellectual types are drawn to buddhism, because it is secular hinduism, and removes the mysticism from an otherwise straightforward message, do the right thing. personally i think buddhism is nihilistic satanism promoted by an elite underground co-evolved aquatic hominid species which has tried to dominate and rule mankind like pieces on some land map out of sheer boredom or curiosity, the same way we build habitats for animals we are interested in. but when you learn too much you start believing in some crazy shit, so don't go too far with it.

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9823433

>>9823380
microdose methamphetamine

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9823444

>>9823419
Fuck off Brandon.

>> No.9823448

>>9823419
Wrong:
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nootropic#Drugs
Many of these show benefit toward some facet of cognition. Was it really that hard to check before posting?

>> No.9823455

>>9823384
always do the opposite of what rogan says. he's going to get colon cancer in 2 years.

>> No.9823458

>>9823419
are you that guy that smokes cigs and fucks sluts etc?

>> No.9823464

>>9823419
Have you even done any nootropics? I have done a lot of them, and some of them definitely work.

>> No.9823467

>>9823455
Do you have any facts to back this up?

>> No.9823471

>>9823467
facts are consensus expert opinion or? eating as much meat as he does 100% ruins your asshole because digestion and shitting itself becomes harder with age. do you know anyone over the age of 50? life begins to suck incredibly quickly when your body starts clicking and clacking.

>> No.9823704

Read a book. And when you're done pick up another one and read that one too.

>> No.9823770

>>9823384
stop coming to this board

>> No.9823775

>>9823380
Be smart.

>> No.9823897

>>9823419
Fuck off, Brandon.

Inept, ignorant pea-brain. You don’t have a fucking degree in medicine. Happily fuck off and let the adults talk.

>> No.9824128

>>9823770
Not an argument

>> No.9824395

>>9823380
gene therapy

>> No.9824948

>>9824395
kek

>> No.9824950

>>9823419
unironically based post from Brandon
you're still a faggot with a fragile ego