{"id":3705,"date":"2017-01-05T22:36:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T06:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=3705"},"modified":"2017-02-05T23:16:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T07:16:09","slug":"exporting-transcendence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=3705","title":{"rendered":"exporting transcendence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Limitless_(film)\">film<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Limitless_(TV_series)\">TV series<\/a> <i>Limitless<\/a><\/i>, a drug makes the protagonist temporarily super-intelligent.<\/p>\n<p>In the episodes I&#8217;ve seen, it&#8217;s not established whether any skills learned with the drug remain when it wears off.  I imagine that you&#8217;d want to try to develop ways to improve your <em>un<\/em>enhanced intelligence; in other words, to teach your alter-ego to learn better.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Later:<\/strong> In the third episode he behaves so stupidly that I lost interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the film and TV series Limitless, a drug makes the protagonist temporarily super-intelligent. In the episodes I&#8217;ve seen, it&#8217;s not established whether any skills learned with the drug remain when it wears off. I imagine that you&#8217;d want to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=3705\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3721,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705\/revisions\/3721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}