[ExI] state of conflict technology

Henry Rivera hrivera at alumni.virginia.edu
Thu Jan 9 03:29:05 UTC 2020


The other way to frame it is learning to operate your brain with neurochemicals. I say that claiming expertise. It’s really not to be taken lightly either. These are very powerful tools. It’s very extropian to me. 
-Henry

> On Jan 8, 2020, at 9:20 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Will Steinberg via extropy-chat
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> On Wed, Jan 8, 2020, 20:26 spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> Sounds like a dangerous way to have fun to me.
> >…Dangerous how?  Cannabis and LSD have extremely low toxicity, several levels of magnitude below e.g. alcohol.  MDMA can definitely be dangerous especially because of cuts and uninformed use, but it tends to be fairly safe as well if pure and used in low doses. 
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> Will and others, I am not claiming expertise.  I just have a bad feeling about use of chemicals to fool with your brain.  That’s not a toy, it’s a tool.  A tool is a toy of course, but I have fun with mine using no chemicals. 
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> The chemical enhancements sound like a bad idea, not the way to have fun, risky, and I don’t cotton to it.
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