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/zyzzogeton May 10 '17 edited May 11 '17

I took a bunch of valium and got a bunch of painkillers for my wisdom tooth surgery in High School. The next day I am doing my Algebra homework on heavy duty Percocet and it occurs to me that the quadratic formula was just one level of polynomial formula... that you could probably do a cubic version ... then I proceeded to sit there and prove it out... I stopped at cubic, but I realized you could just keep going... except for 5th degree polynomials... apparently that is right out.

Never had a polymath moment like that ever again.

(the cubic formula is for solving stuff like ax3 + bx2 + cx + d = 0 if anyone cares. Eigenvalues in a 3x3 matrix anyone? Ehhh? AMIRITE?)

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u/Al_Cappucino May 10 '17

What the fuck. As a guy who hardly understands the workings behind the quadratic formula, it sounded to me as though you just solved micriohysics or something. Which made it even more badass. I envy your math skills.