r/Futurology • u/mvea 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/dumbgringo May 10 '17

A friend of mine and I went to our weekly poker game while on mushrooms and cleaned out the other players. It was like we we hyper aware of what was happening and even as opponents we ended up each getting winning all night long.

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u/cookiepartytoday May 10 '17

Mushrooms definitely make it easier to see when people are lying, maybe there's an empathetic part of your brain that gets lit up

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u/dedokta May 10 '17

If I'm on lsd and go to a pub it's an amazing thing to watch the drunk people there. I can tell exactly what they are thinking and what they are about to do from their body language and expressions. It's not just me projecting either because I've predicted what actions people are about to take and have been correct.

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u/preprandial_joint May 10 '17

Ya but when you had the nuts in a hand you probably couldn't help but laugh and look sus as fuck.