[ExI] 27 psychedelics??

[Will Steinberg]

My guess would be that microdosing psychedelics can significantly improve
chess ability for people who already have a good understanding of the
game.  It simply allows you to think more quickly and more expansively--so
I would imagine the idea allows you to think down lines further, and think
of more lines.

Too high a dose would lead you to thinking down TOO many lines and too many
hypotheticals, wasting time, getting caught in the weeds, perhaps thinking
about the history of chess, or the symbolism of the pieces.  Way too high a
dose and you would just be looking at the fractals forming in every
millimeter of the woodgrain of the board.

On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 12:48 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *…*> *On Behalf Of *Henry Rivera via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] 27 psychedelics??
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> >…Elon Musk is open about his psychedelic use, or people have told on him…
> That is not what is being promoted however in this burgeoning wave of new
> legal psychedelic entrepreneurialism happening…-Henry
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> Thanks Henry.
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> I had proposed a series of chess games, starting with evenly matched
> opponents and one of them (not me) taking something.  I predicted what
> would happen:  I would kick her butt until it was between her shoulder
> blades.  I stand by that prediction, but 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.  We have
> online resources on Chess.com, which automatically records and analyzes
> everything.  It would be an easy test to do, and furthermore… it would
> encourage the use of much smaller (and presumably safer) doses.  Reasoning:
> if any opponent takes too much and has any illusions about the colors of
> the squares, do let me assure you, it will end up between her shoulder
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> But… with a tenth of that dose, then what happens?  I don’t know.  Anyone
> have guesses?
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