It would be interesting to see analyses of other tradeoffs, and use that to hypothesize other classes of nootropics. E.g. if there’s some neural operation that’s bottlenecked on some chemical that takes a long time to synthesize or requires rare materials or causes damage or something, we could supply that chemical, or figure out how to prevent that damage, or something.
Exactly, hence the support of stimulants and/or modafinil, which trades off calories.
It would be interesting to see analyses of other tradeoffs, and use that to hypothesize other classes of nootropics. E.g. if there’s some neural operation that’s bottlenecked on some chemical that takes a long time to synthesize or requires rare materials or causes damage or something, we could supply that chemical, or figure out how to prevent that damage, or something.