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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
"LSD is bad because when people take it their values become different from mine" lmao
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Ben Landau-Taylor
@benlandautaylor
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It’s true that LSD won’t destroy your entire life and put you out on the street the way some other drugs can. Still, I've seen lots of heavy users turn from competent rising elites into third-rate mystics. It's dangerous stuff if you have any ambition at all.
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
in all seriousness LSD is a big part of what led to me dropping out of grad school and i wouldn't have it any other way. there were parts of me that were buried that are important and LSD helped them come out and in doing so undermined all the reasons i was in grad school
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
LSD didn't change my "terminal values." my personality was a rickety building that wasn't working very well and LSD shifted a bunch of pieces of it. that's not exactly the same as fixing it but i had to start somewhere and that was where i started
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
i wouldn't necessarily recommend it to other people without a lot more warnings and disclaimers but at this point i pretty much have to accept that LSD has permanently wound itself into the story of my life and i have a relationship to it and i like that relationship a lot
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nobu hojimi cha an
@nobuhojimichaan
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I like Tim Ferriss's analogy of psychedelics as new snow. We ski down the mountain and make tracks and it's easy to keep following those tracks and eventually they become hard-wired. Psychedelics give us the opportunity to make new tracks. There's much more to it but ...
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