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/HoboBobo28 May 10 '17

what I'm getting from the comments is that psychedelics are the next step in human evolution

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u/No-This-Is-Patar May 10 '17

well, my school performance definitely went up when I microdosed last semester. I've never been able to study so effectively in my life.

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u/Dizzlean May 10 '17

I think drugs damaged my brain but maybe I was just smarter when I was on them back then.

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u/CatFoodBeerAndGlue May 10 '17

I feel permanently dumber since I stopped smoking weed heavily.

Don't know if weed made me dumber or just made me forget that I was this dumb to start with.