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Comment by willholloway | Hacker News Reader

Every once in a while the urge strikes me to order about 20 ampoules of an amazing nootropic from behind the iron curtain made from enzymatically refining growth factors from the brains of pigs, and then loading 5ml into a sterile syringe and stabbing it into the most muscular part of my thigh.

Pushing the plunger down, the elixir streams through the 20 gauge needle. I feel no pain, Ever Neuro Pharma, the maker, is wise enough to include some local anesthetic.

A serene state of heightened focus and recall is only 10 seconds away.

Cerebrolysin has a very real effect, and we know that from studies in rats and humans. Its approved for a variety of conditions in 44 countries, and confers an objective improvement in the capabilities of Parkinson's patients for example.

It's revitalizing and it raised my average jeopardy score (self-scored in my own style) by about 3 correct answers per game.

I have enjoyed a variety of nootropics, and am very happy to have gotten my hands on some NSI-189, a DARPA funded molecule that aimed to create the war fighter of the future.

It's currently undergoing clinical trials, but I have in my possession about 4.5 grams of the hippocampal stem cell promoting substance.

I was very surprised to learn that everything referenced here is real and that this is not an excerpt from an unpublished William Gibson novel. Have you considered a sideline writing cypberpunk fiction?

Have you considered writing short science fiction? Deadly serious, here: this is very well written.

Thank you for the kind words, they make me particularly happy because I felt completely mentally shot post-burnout from an awful consulting project, I'm glad I still have it, and I think NSI definitely helped my recovery.

My original goal post-college was to write, direct and self-fund microbudget movies. I got caught up in the self-funding part.

Here is my latest attempt at solving the money problem once and for all so I could focus on writing:

I called it the Winter Startup Challenge, and my goal is to defossilize one human activity.

http://wsc.willholloway.net/index.html

Theres some more (and photos) about nootropics here:

http://wsc.willholloway.net/nootropics.html

http://www.subzeroscientific.com/#!faq/c18ek looks like your competitor. Ancillary cannabis investment is pretty hot right now, you might want to pitch Arcview. https://arcviewgroup.com/

"Best part to predict the future is to live it." There's great deal of science fiction about enhancement, but usually it discusses nanotechnology or compute-based augmentation; there's less out there that would cover the impact of actually understanding how the brain works ("the brain genome project") and developing more "natural" solutions.

Re: movies. Charles Stross ('cstross' on here) mentioned how television has effectively replaced the short story as commercial medium -- so youtube shorts could effectively have the same impact short stories (e.g., Flowers for Algernon -- the original story about enhancement) once had.

tl;dr Please write a modernized "Flowers for Algernon", perhaps as a film short.

You and the other commenters piqued my interest in writing a sci-fi short story. I'm currently trying to raise a f&f funding round and then on to a crowd funding round, but I thought maybe I could justify the time if I put a little product placement for my invention in there.

I was thinking about it and since we have seen the drug induced super-intelligence story a few times, I was thinking of incorporating some of the ideas of David Pierce, from his seminal work The Hedonistic Imperative.

http://hedweb.com

Can't promise anything but I'll let you know if I do!

Damn, where do I sign up?

How do you find this compares to methylphenidate or amphetamines?

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