godshatter
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It was mentioned in an Eliezer post, and in the thread there was this comment:
Godshatter is the term he uses for a superintelligence ramming data and thought patterns into a human brain.
but I'm not seeing the connection here...?
TheOtherDave is right. Eliezer borrowed the word but not the entire concept.
What I meant was, "you'll become more stupid/slow-thinking/... but have memories of when you were much smarter, and that is intolerable."
Limitless is a movie coming out this Friday which includes nootropics as a major plot device. I think that the way they are portrayed in the movie, and the subsequent media discussion (if any) about nootropics would be of interest here, even if the movie isn't.
From what I can tell, the movie is about a guy who uses a drug to improve his mental capabilities, uses those to radically alter his life, who is then targeted because its just that genre of movie.
Just a heads up, if anyone is interested.