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By a strange coincidence, yesterday a link to this article appeared on the same Hacker News page as this.

http://www.gwern.net/Drug%20heuristics?2

The argument there is that - in healthy people - not much can be done to improve intelligence, and speculates on reasons why. The qualification suggests that experience working with autistic children is not relevant to the general population.

That this link has been voted up to the front page and the other hasn't perhaps says more about the optimism of the community than the respective merits of the two positions.



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