[ExI] more beta, not less

Dan TheBookMan danust2012 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 16 00:27:09 UTC 2020


On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 12:14 AM spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >...> On Behalf Of Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat
> Subject: Re: [ExI] more beta, not less
>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 11:49 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <...
> >>... There are already precision stimulants.  Two examples: Cialis and
> Viagra.
>
> >...I was thinking more in the area of cognitive function, but I reckon
> you're right there. :)
>
> >...Regards, Dan
>
> Dan... what if... we found something that does for the brain what Cialis
> does elsewhere.

I thought the precision desired was well below the level of whole
organs. Imagine, for instance, a stimulant that just boosts, say,
aural perception or even just an aspect of aural perception. My guess
current stimulants do affect specific stuff but in a haphazard fashion
-- stimulating some stuff and not others, but not because there was a
specific target in mind from the 'maker' or user.

> Then what if... you created a fun product where the patient gets a bottle of
> pills which all look identical but one is Cialis and the other works on the
> brain.  Ya eat one, she wouldn't even know what kind of date she will have
> that evening.  Think of all the possibilities: betting games, strip chess,
> oh the possibilities.

Well, you can do that now: just have pills that look alike but have
different psychoactive, etc. ingredients. It's not like you need to do
more than take off the shelf drugs and simply put them into similar
looking capsules if you want to do random dosing.

This does remind me of a story I read where recreational drugs were
all legalized and what was developed was a hallucinogen that would
give one a very short lived hallucination -- sort of like you could
freak out on your lunch break, then go back to work without being
weird all day long. I reckon microdosing probably does some of that
now. But microdosing doesn't give you a full blown effect for a tiny
window. It attenuates the whole experience. Or so I've been told.

Regards,

Dan
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