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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.
AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)
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This is up there with the time that rationalists convinced themselves to get addicted to heroin for productivity or whatever.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34648499
I had opioids (Norco) in the hospital like 3 or so times when I had pancreatitis, and they gave me some to take home just in case. I didn't actually need any at home so left that bottle closed but it took a surprising amount of self control; just because of how good it felt in the hospital.
The stuff is potent and best not messed around with.
i am simultaneously going "what"-meme and jesus fucking christ and also i'm not actually shocked
That thread is gold. Specially love this one where heroin is dismissed because it's not utilitarian enough
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34649954
Ketamine and booze will absolutely not do that, and for the love of God do not take GHB to cool off a rush, what in God’s name are you thinking, you ludicrous phoney
Are these guys lying about drug use to look cool???
“incredibly dangerous drug advice that doesn’t get called out” is practically an orange site specialty at this point. it’s weird that their world-class mods don’t even catch the obvious cases
GHB aside I wouldn’t even call it particularly dangerous, it’s just blissfully wrongheaded. Ketamine is a dissociative anaesthetic, and it does what it says on the tin: it takes however your mind is at that moment and just brutally lops off all the connections you normally anticipate it having with your body and other bits of itself, with various interesting consequences for mind and body both. Alcohol is alcohol, it’ll depress your euphoria to some extent but it is also in itself sugar and obviously will make you drunk on top of the (significant) remaining effects of the stimulant - rather than calm down, you are far more likely to get outrageously mad and try to punch a stranger, poorly, because already the whole point of abusing most stimulants, euphoria aside, is to turn you into the world’s sharpest spoon.
They give programming advice just like they give drug advice, the consequences are just different.
This whole situation is making me so glad I stopped taking drugs and never learned to program
Born too young to be made to learn how to program in school
Born too old to lose my code monkey job to a literal mechanical code monkey in a mutually disastrous management fuckup
Born just in time to burn out on drugs and alcohol and watch the machine revolution from home
I’m just cackling at whatever this guy thinks ketamine does when you’re already on speed playing jump rope with the traffic, other than “you will lie face down on the pavement for half an hour and conduct a week long interview with satan between the gap in your eyelids”
Ok, yes, he's making it all up to look cool, but the idea of dorky rationalists mixing pills, booze and ket is really, really funny. If you really want to be good at code, you should be drinking and drugging like you're Lemmy in 1971....
but it's a bad trip, man
@gerikson Sure, but it is free.
i'd normally disregard that outright as adderal talking