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that time Scott told the rationalists how adderall would turn them into geniuses of finance and even named specific rationalists he thought should get into adderall (slatestarcodex.com)
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this btw is why we now see some of the TPOT rationalists microdosing street meth as a substitute. also that they're idiots, of course.

somehow this man still has a medical license

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[-] acb@mastodon.social 11 points 1 year ago

In his book on psychedelics, David Nutt suggests that it is likely that the observed benefits of microdosing are just the placebo effect.

[-] saucerwizard@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

His GABAlabs stuff sounds absolutely fascinating.

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