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Brandt: The human enhancement industry will produce multiple billion-dollar companies
“This is the tip of an iceberg for something really big, and that we're seeing a larger trend around human enhancement, that there's going to be multiple billion dollar companies in the space, that there's going to be real really interesting stuff, really novel…”
Brandt: Nootrobox aims to provide daily cognitive enhancers superior to coffee
“And basically the entire notion of NutraBox is predicated on the idea of like, hey, is there something better than coffee that like everyone should be having access to on a daily basis?”
Brandt: Yerkes-Dodson law shows over-arousal impairs mental performance
“There is a sense, like, this is a well-documented psychological phenomenon. It's called the Yerkes-Dodson curve, where if you're too activated, you actually, your performance on mental tasks decreases. If you're overly alert you do worse.”