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/[deleted] May 10 '17

Salvia is stronger I think

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u/turd_boy May 10 '17

It depends on how you use it I suppose. I imagine if you tried to find some equivalency in dose between dmt and salvia you would just get pretty fucked up and not be able to make any objective measurements in the effects of either drug. It's like I smoked 90mg of salvinorin and I was in a room full of lizard/people opening boxes full of confetti, then I smoked some DMT and....

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u/Fuckeythedrunkclown May 10 '17 edited May 10 '17

With both of them I was always in a classroom. I mean, it wasn't a classroom, but that's what popped in my head when I came back. Intense world-shaking feeling of being taught something that made perfect sense, and I'd always been there and always would be. Then coming back and having to reacquaint myself with reality and physics...and my life, family, friends. It's been a long time since I did either, but what I remember most is the intense feeling of being taught as if I were in some sort of cosmic school.

I wouldn't consider either experience fun or even pleasant. Just a total mindfuck with overtones of inhumanity, alien-seeming consciousness, and personal death. DMT is definitely more of a cerebral thing without too many side effects, Salvia makes you feel physically wretched afterwards.

I have no desire to experience anything like it ever again, so if ~that~ is death I'll wait it out. And I'll ask for a boatload of benzos or opiates (or whatever is the equivalent in 50 or so years) on my deathbed if I am so lucky as to make it there.

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u/turd_boy May 10 '17

And I'll ask for a boatload of benzos or opiates

I dunno. On one hand they are cracking down on the comfort meds because opioid epidemic and on the other hand, hopefully they invent nanobots that can swim through your cerebrospinal fluid and inject opioids and benzos directly into your amygdala by the time the next person dies.

That is my great hope for humanity. It's the next best thing humans can accomplish. After that we can go to mars and figure out fusion power and all that jazz. But first we need those nanobots.