Re:An Experience with Modafinil
by thePostFuturist on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @12:18AM
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The rumour is Limitless (the movie with Bradley Cooper in the early '10s) was modeled on Modafinil, the side effects being "inspired by" as well. I didn't have the peripheral vision failures to register, but the death like fatigue is real.
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Re:An Experience with Modafinil
by octoberfranklin on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:11AM
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Limitless is the film version of Alan Glynn's book The Dark Fields. It was published in 2001, so it would've been written before or at most a year or two after modafinil got FDA approval, and long before modafinil was popularized by Wired, etc in the mid-2000s.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Fields
The book is really, really good. Much darker than the film, however. The ending is completely different, particularly the implications of the last paragraph.
If you're on a Dark Fields kick, Ted Chiang's 1991 short story Understand is worthwhile. Geekier and not as philosophically weighty, but way more fun.
Re:An Experience with Modafinil
by jasonladuke0311 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @11:19AM
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> Ted Chiang's 1991 short story Understand is worthwhile.
Great story, as are most of his. It reminded me of the Dark Forest Theory [0] from the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy [1].
[0] https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/the-dark-forest-theo... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_of_Earth%27s_Past