[ExI] 27 psychedelics??

[William Flynn Wallace]

Gene Krupa was addicted to heroin and insisted that he played better under
it.  So someone challenged him:  tape a session with and without heroin.
He admitted that he played better straight.

I played a variety of instruments but never wanted to do them under the
influence.  You can put lipstick on a pig............  I want to hear great
music played by great performers.   And I do.There are 1500 male
grandmasters and 40 female ones.  Can we say that men are better at spatial
things?   Yes - we are very spacial. bill w

On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 10:24 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *Subject:* RE: [ExI] 27 psychedelics??
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> >…after I wrote that, it occurred to me how obvious is the idea.  All my
> ideas are so obvious, I can just always assume it has been done.  Damn.
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> >…OK, now all we need to do is find who has done it and how the games
> went.  Note that we get a lot more data than just the win/loss number.
> Data is generated with every move.  If the tripper is making mistakes but
> simultaneously finding brilliant ideas, we can get that info…
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> Regarding Reefer Madness, that party scene compelled millions to try
> marijuana.  So many were misled to believe that smoking a single reefer
> could enable them to play wild cool jazz piano.  Well hell, if a reefer
> could really do that, of course we would smoke them, even I would.
> Reliable sources report that it didn’t work.  But that Hot Fingers reefer
> cat be throwin down some hot jazz licks in the movie, ya gotta hand it to
> him.  He be TESTIFYIN on that keyboard.  Wish I could do that.
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> (138) Hot Fingers - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eauSPoxI0gY>
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> Regarding the psychedelic notion of psychedelics enabling faster and more
> creative thinking, below is an example of a computer analysis of a game I
> played yesterday against a guy who is more than 100 Elo points above me, so
> I wasn’t even trying for a win, kinda hoping to end the day on a draw if
> possible.  I went with a well-worn Giuoco Pianissimo line as black, but my
> 1930 Elo opponent was having none of that draw nonsense.
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> I made a drawish play on move 12, which you see there on the graph.  The
> computer called it a blunder.  I knew it was weak and cowardly, but thought
> it was my best bet against this monster.  He replied with an aggressive
> blunder, which I spotted and exploited, putting me in good shape for at
> least a draw.  I kept my cool, grinding away on his ass in a surprisingly
> accurate 49 move marathon for the win.
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> This is the kind of data we can get free, if anyone wishes to experiment
> with psychedelic performance enhancers.  I volunteer to be the straight
> guy.  I have a piano you can borrow if you don’t play chess.  Before we do
> that however, consider that chess, like any other sport, is one in which
> the adherents will do whatever it takes, whaaateeeever it takes, anything,
> to play better.  We get far too wrapped up in it and want to do better, for
> we love the game.  This leads me to the speculation that every chemical
> brain enhancement up to and including such absurdities as devouring the
> semen of grandmasters, has been tried and has failed.
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> Granted I could have stopped writing before that particular revolting
> example, but you get the picture.  Chess has been played in its current
> form for over 500 years in every country on the planet, and is a reasonable
> proxy for measuring brain performance for those who play.  The reason I am
> so bold with the challenge is my complete confidence that had there been
> any such effective chemical therapy, we would know all about it by now.
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