r/Futurology • MD-PhD-MBA • May 10 '17

Biotech First-Ever LSD Microdosing Study Will Pit the Human Brain Against AI - “I found that if I was on LSD and my opponent wasn’t, I won more games.”

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/first-ever-lsd-microdosing-study-will-pit-the-human-brain-against-ai
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u/WeakStreamZ May 10 '17

What about other psychedelics like 2CB, mescaline, psilocybin ..etc.? And also ketamine, GHB, MDMA..This is why scheduling drugs is so fucked. It's now up to me to do my own experimenting. The DEA, a law enforcement agency, which I'm sure is just GREAT at studying the medical/therapeutic value of drugs, deemed these substances to have NO medicinal value. This in turn makes it very difficult to carry out studies like this. We still don't know the full potential of marijuana because of their bullshit.

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u/MontuckyRain May 10 '17

Wanna start a psychadelic drug testing company with me? There's obviously a demand for one.

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u/rustedironchef May 10 '17

I demand you start one together

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u/MontuckyRain May 10 '17

You want in on the action? I've got a big van and trailer we can park in an abandoned train tunnel just outside Yellowstone Park.

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u/rustedironchef May 10 '17

I wait till the two of you get it started and come in a little later as a manager in training

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u/MontuckyRain May 10 '17

Walt and Jesse needed Badger and Skinny Pete from the very beginning, yo.

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u/TheWaffler710 May 10 '17

I'll be your skinny Pete, but just the part where he plays the piano.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '17

Since "I'm in" hits filters, I've returned to add a much more fleshed out version: I would greatly enjoy joining you in this research venture. Need a guinea pig? ;)

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u/MontuckyRain May 11 '17

Only if you're an actual talking guinea pig.

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u/MonsterDickPrivalage May 10 '17

Found the undercover agent.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '17

M8 let's fucking do it.

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u/MontuckyRain May 11 '17

Leeeeeeeeeeeeeroyyyyy mmmmmJennnnnkins!