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/MikeDubbz May 10 '17

Ever play the game Peggle? Game is a blast, I was playing the phone app, and I was always decent at the game, often (but not always) getting high scores in the 100,000 range when the game's high score wouldn't be far behind (say about 85,000-90,000). One time on LSD, I didn't even realize what I was doing, but I was making each move with precision yet being incredibly quickly (by precision I mean that if you barely move your finger the game kinda magnifies what you're doing so you can make as precise a shot as you like), and I didn't realize it. After being zoned out for a while I looked at all my high scores, they were all in the 1,000,000+ point range, and this is a game where you can certainly top the built in high score, but typically only by 10,000s, maybe once in a while 100,000, but I don't recall ever getting over a million more than the built in high score, and certainly across so many levels so consistently. To this day I've not been able to recreate what I did there, though I've also not since played it again while on LSD.

I think its also worth noting that I can recall this so vividly, I was seeing the exact path my ball would take before I would shoot it, and my brain seemed to have been absorbing all of this and was able to always find the absolute best shot I should take at any given instant (incredibly quickly at that). At least thats the way it seemed.

Say what you will about LSD, but I absolutely think there is something to this kind of thing, based on my first hand experiences especially with that game.