Opinions on smart drugs - immoral/unfair?

[Coffee Jesus]

I find it more unfair hanging around people with "total recall", they read a text through once and recall 80 % while I read the text through 3 times, make a presentation and explain everything to myself and recall 95 %, but fuck I spent 5 times more time on doing that.

How do you know this? Are you comparing test scores? That might not be so accurate. I just worked it out as a probability problem (below in gray).

Each student knows x of the material.
Abbey knows 1/2.
Brian knows 2/3.
Conny knows 4/5.
What is the probability that they will get a question right if it requires them to know y different things?

x^y = the probability that a student will know every fact necessary
(x^y)/(.8^y) = the fraction of their probability of getting it right over Conny's

Abbey's, Brian's, and Conny's probabilities, and their probabilities as percents of Conny's probability:

y=1 --- .50, .66, .80 --- 62.5, 83.3, 100
y=2 --- .25, .44, .64 --- 39.1, 69.4, 100
y=3 --- .13, .30, .51 --- 24.4, 57.9, 100
y=4 --- .06, .20, .41 --- 15.3, 48.2, 100

Conny's relative probability of getting it right is higher for the more specific questions, but in absolute terms, every student is less likely to get a more specific question right. Having more specific questions mixed in with the less specific questions will create a high-end buffer that makes it increasingly difficult to improve on an already high test score, pushing what would have been a 97 down to a 93, or what would have been a 99 down to a 97.