The visuals you get from psychedelics and the visuals from imagination are different. Psychedelics seem to affect your real visual field. You're not imagining textures melting with colors and walls turning into liquid,…
You're right, of course. There is a difference between methylphenidate and other amphetamine-class stimulants for ADHD, but I didn't know what to call it. I should have said it's not a direct agonist. Instead of…
>Sorry for the slight divergence from the focus on ketamine, but more generally, does anyone know if this applies to other medications that alter the brain's function? Tolerance is a phemomenon where after using a drug…
For the record, that's not it. People calling each other "autists" is a WallStreetBets practice, from Reddit. It's not a thing on 4chan, not even on the interesting place that is /biz/. 4channers would use the…
You're right. I use it as a euphemism, I think because the stigma is so strong even I feel uncomfortable writing it. It is in fact mail-order "street" metamphetamine from an online reseller. My understanding is that the…
That's mostly a myth, it's not very well absorbed through the skin at all. For a thumbprint, you still put your thumb on your tongue and lick it. But it's important to keep in mind that only very rarely have people…
A kilogram is a lot, considering LSD is active at microgram doses, although in practice there are labs producing and handling kilograms of it. LSD in powder form is readily available on the black market. Expensive…
Opioids should require a reasonable bar, if we go from a really low bar to a really high bar, all we are doing is making the same mistake twice, but in opposite directions. The wildly excessive prescription of oxycontin…
Okay, I see what you mean with the clean hands analogy now. I've definitely seen people on social media for example using OCD as an exaggeration for completely normal, even positive things. I agree it's not very useful…
It seems bitterly ironic that the people who need those stimulant medications the most tend to be those who will have the most trouble jumping through all the hoops, and continuing to perform the song and dance on time…
I think you're right that focusing on group effects will be more productive, but I probably reach the same conclusion for different reasons :) I intuitively don't like the idea of the 10x programmer, my core argument is…
I agree with you :) I actually like those little patterns a lot, there are problems where you might absolutely take 10x longer because you didn't know the algorithm or the right machine learning concept. The OP talks…
All those little bits of knowledge are nice tools and patterns, they're definitely good to have. And if you have curiosity, you will naturally keep learning dozens of those over time. But they are not applicable…
That's where it started, but they're entirely separate banners now. It is actually not allowed to organize raids or other Anonymous-style hacktivities that are against US law on 4chan. So, calling for cyber war may just…
Absolutely. If you're looking for examples of things going wrong, the researchchemicals forum unfortunately has more than a few cases of people showing symptoms of serious nerve damage after experimenting with NPS…
The way to test these things is by starting with an alergy test, a dose low enough that it definitely won't have any effect, and also definitely will not kill you. If you feel fine, you wait several days and try a…
I'm surprised, because you don't often hear that particular criticism of 2C-B. Mostly, people complain about nausea, or the fact that it burns very painfully when people insuflate it Purity and accurate dosage is a…
The honest answer is that we don't know. Experimentally, it works. There are theories (google will give you a couple vaguely plausible mechanisms), but it's too early to say. And it's likely that the antidepressive…
Taking away the option of perpetual licenses is an interesting business decision. Jetbrains makes the subscription model work, but they also do give you a permanent license to older versions after 1 year of subscription…
Screen readers work great, for me it's my phone. On my desktop I'd be getting distracted and bored in about two paragraphs. Even if I try to come back to the article, there's invariable 3 other things that I'm switching…
If we're posting playful town-style meeting spaces with cute animals, can't forget about this one: https://pony.town/ (2016)
You should honestly ask yourself why this is not a popular comment. If you start by assuming everyone else is arguing in bad faith ("people who just wanna be seen looking like they care"), then it's easy to dismiss any…
I would have agreed with this on principle, assuming motivated actors who are willing to read technical papers on PhotoDNA, keeping it unpublished is only delaying these actors. Although there can be real value in…
That's too short a thought, it detracts from the point. It is bad to post passwords, not just because you lose privacy, but because you'd lose control of important accounts. Asking people to post their passwords is not…
Let me respond to the "novel images with new hashes" part. Apple's system doesn't use only cryptographic hashes, it seems designed to catch novel images too. There is concern that it will be inaccurate and have a much…
The visuals you get from psychedelics and the visuals from imagination are different. Psychedelics seem to affect your real visual field. You're not imagining textures melting with colors and walls turning into liquid,…
You're right, of course. There is a difference between methylphenidate and other amphetamine-class stimulants for ADHD, but I didn't know what to call it. I should have said it's not a direct agonist. Instead of…
>Sorry for the slight divergence from the focus on ketamine, but more generally, does anyone know if this applies to other medications that alter the brain's function? Tolerance is a phemomenon where after using a drug…
For the record, that's not it. People calling each other "autists" is a WallStreetBets practice, from Reddit. It's not a thing on 4chan, not even on the interesting place that is /biz/. 4channers would use the…
You're right. I use it as a euphemism, I think because the stigma is so strong even I feel uncomfortable writing it. It is in fact mail-order "street" metamphetamine from an online reseller. My understanding is that the…
That's mostly a myth, it's not very well absorbed through the skin at all. For a thumbprint, you still put your thumb on your tongue and lick it. But it's important to keep in mind that only very rarely have people…
A kilogram is a lot, considering LSD is active at microgram doses, although in practice there are labs producing and handling kilograms of it. LSD in powder form is readily available on the black market. Expensive…
Opioids should require a reasonable bar, if we go from a really low bar to a really high bar, all we are doing is making the same mistake twice, but in opposite directions. The wildly excessive prescription of oxycontin…
Okay, I see what you mean with the clean hands analogy now. I've definitely seen people on social media for example using OCD as an exaggeration for completely normal, even positive things. I agree it's not very useful…
It seems bitterly ironic that the people who need those stimulant medications the most tend to be those who will have the most trouble jumping through all the hoops, and continuing to perform the song and dance on time…
I think you're right that focusing on group effects will be more productive, but I probably reach the same conclusion for different reasons :) I intuitively don't like the idea of the 10x programmer, my core argument is…
I agree with you :) I actually like those little patterns a lot, there are problems where you might absolutely take 10x longer because you didn't know the algorithm or the right machine learning concept. The OP talks…
All those little bits of knowledge are nice tools and patterns, they're definitely good to have. And if you have curiosity, you will naturally keep learning dozens of those over time. But they are not applicable…
That's where it started, but they're entirely separate banners now. It is actually not allowed to organize raids or other Anonymous-style hacktivities that are against US law on 4chan. So, calling for cyber war may just…
Absolutely. If you're looking for examples of things going wrong, the researchchemicals forum unfortunately has more than a few cases of people showing symptoms of serious nerve damage after experimenting with NPS…
The way to test these things is by starting with an alergy test, a dose low enough that it definitely won't have any effect, and also definitely will not kill you. If you feel fine, you wait several days and try a…
I'm surprised, because you don't often hear that particular criticism of 2C-B. Mostly, people complain about nausea, or the fact that it burns very painfully when people insuflate it Purity and accurate dosage is a…
The honest answer is that we don't know. Experimentally, it works. There are theories (google will give you a couple vaguely plausible mechanisms), but it's too early to say. And it's likely that the antidepressive…
Taking away the option of perpetual licenses is an interesting business decision. Jetbrains makes the subscription model work, but they also do give you a permanent license to older versions after 1 year of subscription…
Screen readers work great, for me it's my phone. On my desktop I'd be getting distracted and bored in about two paragraphs. Even if I try to come back to the article, there's invariable 3 other things that I'm switching…
If we're posting playful town-style meeting spaces with cute animals, can't forget about this one: https://pony.town/ (2016)
You should honestly ask yourself why this is not a popular comment. If you start by assuming everyone else is arguing in bad faith ("people who just wanna be seen looking like they care"), then it's easy to dismiss any…
I would have agreed with this on principle, assuming motivated actors who are willing to read technical papers on PhotoDNA, keeping it unpublished is only delaying these actors. Although there can be real value in…
That's too short a thought, it detracts from the point. It is bad to post passwords, not just because you lose privacy, but because you'd lose control of important accounts. Asking people to post their passwords is not…
Let me respond to the "novel images with new hashes" part. Apple's system doesn't use only cryptographic hashes, it seems designed to catch novel images too. There is concern that it will be inaccurate and have a much…