I actually looked it up before reading the article—my thought process being, ‘a nootropic I haven’t heard of? And wait, isn’t that an AIDS drug—I know I’ve heard the name before...’ I was more than a little disappointed. (The article wasn’t too great either; some of the usual muddled intuitions and minimal information. The New Yorker did a better article, for example.)
I actually looked it up before reading the article—my thought process being, ‘a nootropic I haven’t heard of? And wait, isn’t that an AIDS drug—I know I’ve heard the name before...’ I was more than a little disappointed. (The article wasn’t too great either; some of the usual muddled intuitions and minimal information. The New Yorker did a better article, for example.)