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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

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that time Scott told the rationalists how adderall would turn them into geniuses of finance and even named specific rationalists he thought should get into adderall (slatestarcodex.com)

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this btw is why we now see some of the TPOT rationalists microdosing street meth as a substitute. also that they're idiots, of course.

somehow this man still has a medical license

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[–] saucerwizard@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Also I should point out claims around micro-dosing psychedelics are actually pretty sketch…and some of these people claim daily use of lsd - which is impossible (due to receptors getting flooded).

[–] self@awful.systems 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

daily use is definitely possible! you’ll just get absolutely nothing out of it other than extremely minor but cumulative damage to your heart (which notably doesn’t happen when you’re not doing weird shit with your acid and you give it a fucking week or two off)

[–] maol@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago

not really relevant, but: a quote from an interview with hard-living 60s rock band the Pretty Things:

"..microdosing LSD [is] a practice May thinks may have been invented by a keyboard player who performed with the band in the 70s. “He used to have a little lick of acid every morning while standing on his head, doing his yoga exercises.” And did it help him psychologically, as latterday devotees of microdosing claim it can? “Well, no, not really,” sighs May. “He went pretty loony, to be honest.”"

Source: this article

[–] acb@mastodon.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In his book on psychedelics, David Nutt suggests that it is likely that the observed benefits of microdosing are just the placebo effect.

[–] saucerwizard@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

His GABAlabs stuff sounds absolutely fascinating.

[–] Homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie 8 points 1 year ago

@saucerwizard @dgerard

For those interested, what David Nutt did _after_ he got fired for saying "actually the evidence is that cannabis is less dangerous than alcohol".

https://www.drugscience.org.uk/drug-information/lsd/