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There's an organization closely resembling DARPA but with exclusive focus on computing. Wish more gets written on it →

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_Advanced_Research...




I've done some work around the edges of IARPA. It's not exclusivly computing BTW.

It's pretty much DARPA with smaller budgets. Some pretty interesting projects - the one about increasing human intelligence with magnets is pretty far out!


"the one about increasing human intelligence with magnets is pretty far out"

Sounds very esoteric to me. Is there a link somewhere? I would like to know, if there is substance to it, or that someone was able to talk quite good.


It's actually both magnetic (transcranial magnetic stimulation) and electro-magentic stimulation (transcranial direct current stimulation): https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/09/prepare...

There's a reddit dedicated to people trying it on themselves: https://www.reddit.com/r/tDCS/

I wouldn't say the results are exactly conclusive, but there did seem to be some results showing that pain can be reduced in some circumstances.

And while "magnets" sounds like some kind of crystal therapy or something, ignoring those aspects it's actually exactly the kind of way-out things that *ARPA should be funding.


Thanks for the links.

"but there did seem to be some results showing that pain can be reduced in some circumstances"

Even though that sounds not more deep than placebo.

Apart from that I am also open to crystal therapie. You know, the world is quite made up of quants and crystals can focus and polarize quants .. so if someone has some claim with more substance than that and wants to do a scientific research about it, why not. But so far I have seen only esoteric "research".


IARPA is specifically mentioned in the article.




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