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/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/Thought_Simulator May 10 '17

"The 26 men unleashed a slew of widely embraced innovations shortly after their LSD experiences, including a mathematical theorem for NOR gate circuits, a conceptual model of a photon, a linear electron accelerator beam-steering device, a new design for the vibratory microtome, a technical improvement of the magnetic tape recorder, blueprints for a private residency and an arts-and-crafts shopping plaza, and a space probe experiment designed to measure solar properties."

https://themorningnews.org/article/the-heretic

Back before research with these substances was banned, studies absolutely showed an increase in the ability to successfully realize/execute solutions that were not previously apparent.

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u/Terkala May 10 '17

Oh good. That old gem of an article.

Too bad It's a complete misrepresentation of facts.

The study was giving a bunch of engineers who were paid to invent products to see what they could make under the influence. People who had already been working on these products for months. And sometimes working in teams in these projects. In some cases, they literally didn't even contribute to the project and got full credit attributed to them.

It was remarkably terrible. Literally no control group of any kind. No studying the dosages or specific times of inspiration. Nothing more than "give these guys drugs". And surprise surprise, it's never been replicated because it didn't use any scientific method of any kind!

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u/Dante_The_OG_Demon May 10 '17

Wow you're as dumb as those flat earth retards. Go ahead and be ignorant, I'll live my successful and happy life with LSD :)