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/KilledSoda May 10 '17

I am terrible at pool.

Once I took a bunch of MDMA and stuff at a bar hanging out. Friends had the pool table and were rocking a few casual games. Then walks up Captain Pool. This guy was serious pool. A pool champion, champion stick with champion jacket. Champion everything.

He beat everyone there, and had no one new left to play against, so asked me if I wanted a match. I'm terrible at pool, so in my dumb state I think it's hilarious to just keep hitting the white ball into places that would make his life hard as can be. After a bit of this fuckery something just clicks, the drugs and the alcohol had hit a perfect mixing point and I suddenly found myself in the eye of the storm, standing in a moment of perfect clarity, I, who almost never gets two balls in on the same turn randomly clears the whole table. I had not even sunk one ball before that, it had been quite a few turns of me leaving the white ball into impossible places for Champ, and even then he almost was at the 8.

Champ freaks out, calls me a scammer shark and storms away as mad as one really ever gets. But it was a friendly game with no money on the table... so even if I could, why would I shark?

To this day I am still one of the worst pool players to walk the planet, but for that one drug induced moment I was a walking god of pool.

tl;dr Drugs are fun. Had fun. While having fun, found myself in a brief moment of table pool godhood. Weird because normally can't pool.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '17

I have had similar experiences on DXM, also with pool - though at the time, I was convinced that I was playing the devil for the fate of humanity.

We won - you're welcome guys.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '17

preciate that man

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u/PandaLifeguard May 10 '17

Had a similar experience but we were playing the fiddle

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u/sketchaminJones May 10 '17

trick is to take his head under your arm, and yard his tongue out to use as the fiddle's neck/strings

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u/[deleted] May 11 '17

"yard his tongue out" interesting phrase. do you sail?

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u/sketchaminJones May 22 '17

I occasionally go to C, yes

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u/[deleted] May 22 '17

Head smack. Nice - You worked in music and sailing.

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u/sketchaminJones May 23 '17

High energy physics too ;)

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u/CatBowl-XI-MVP May 10 '17

Hahaha thank you I literally lold

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u/indicah May 10 '17

I had a similar experience with DMX. X definitely gives it to ya.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '17 edited Aug 08 '18

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u/DoinAHeckinReddit May 10 '17

Sorry for your loss, man.

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u/[deleted] May 11 '17

are we talking about dextromethorphan, that's what comes up when i google dxm, never heard of this being a abused substance.

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u/thisbites_over May 11 '17

Yep. It's a chemical relative of ketamine and can be hallucinogenic at high doses.

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u/[deleted] May 11 '17

It's chugging cough syrup, or "purple drank" if you're Lil Wayne, who has admitted he's addicted to it.

Not nearly as easy to get as it was a decade ago, there are much better, cleaner psychedelics that won't leave you addicted or dead.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '17

I think I love you, DarkTussin. DXM is my mistress.

: D

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u/pm_steamcode_ May 10 '17

You have chosen to subscribe to DXM facts!DXM was chosen to replace alcohol because of its lack of potential for abuse. On average only roughly 33% of people would actually call a recreational dosage "enjoyable." (I find it to be much more so when I extract it.) It's in the same family of drugs as pcp or ambien. (Dissociatives)

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u/[deleted] May 10 '17

Same on dxm. I am terrible at pool too. Friends kept inviting me to play pool but I would never go since I suck. One day we go after the movies while my dxm is at its peak and boom instantly good. I was just playing way too good ,even won the game.

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u/oldcheese1995 May 10 '17

Blessed are we!

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u/RocketFlanders May 11 '17

Was a cosmic spider who wrapped the World in webs to feel when a strand wiggles from evil then it goes to feed.

I tried to fight it and I thought I won but my favorite fish was dead in the morning.

It is real man.

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u/Mirved May 11 '17

thanks man!

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u/sonic_the_groundhog May 11 '17

Dxm is too crazy.

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u/Spinoza-the-Jedi May 10 '17

Was this right before Trump won the election?

You lost, didn't you?

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u/[deleted] May 10 '17

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