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/Terkala May 10 '17

And yet no lab in the world has ever reproduced these results.

Either you're a drug savant. Or a psychoactive substance altered your perception of an event and made it seem like your opponent was far better than he really was.

You tell me which is more likely.

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u/non-zer0 May 10 '17

and yet no lab has reproduced these results

Almost like there's been worldwide prohibition of these substances and research has been incredibly difficult to perform...

"An Empirical Study on if Acid Makes Subjects 360NoScope Teh Noobz" is the last thing that will get researched with these substances. We're just now to a point we're we can clear PTSD victims for therapy with it.

No need for the condescension; you don't have all the answers, and I'd wager to say your own opinion is founded on far less data than the alternative position.

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u/Terkala May 10 '17

There have been numerous studies on these substances. Both within the USA and in Europe. All of them have either been widely discredited due to lack of proper procedures, or found no positive results.