[ExI] 27 psychedelics??

[William Flynn Wallace]

Oh baloney, Spike.  I know that transgender issues really light your fire,
but do you really think that a significant percentage of the grandmasters
grouped as male are anything but?

On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 12:17 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *…*> *On Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] 27 psychedelics??
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> >…Gene Krupa was addicted to heroin and insisted that he played better
> under it…
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> This is a very common attitude in jazz and rock.  I have firsthand
> observations (not experience (would experiencing a drug be zeroethhand
> observations?))  It can cause the musicians to relax and feel the music
> perhaps, but their technique doesn’t appear to get better.  Jazz has
> creative improvisation, but I don’t see that improves either.  I agree that
> drugs would cause musicians to perceive they are doing better, and enjoy
> their music more.
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> Regarding my link to Hot Fingers from Reefer Madness, I realized after the
> fact that the video showed Hot before the reefer, but doesn’t show how he
> did after.  I can’t find a link to Fingers after he stole away to the
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> >…There are 1500 male grandmasters and 40 female ones.  Can we say that
> men are better at spatial things?
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> Sure can’t Billw.  From what we are now told, we cannot know if we are
> male or female, so we cannot know if some of the grandmasters are really
> grandmistresses or if there is any scientifically reproducible way to
> distinguish.  The XX and XY determining gender business is so old-think,
> appropriate only to lads our age (or lasses (for we can never be sure (we
> are told.)))
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> Just to clarify my own attitude, while freely acknowledging there are
> transgenders and approving of their freedom to choose their own identity,
> taking it to the extreme of pretending there are no real differences
> between men and women, or that we cannot distinguish between the two, is
> the pinnacle of absurdity.  Through it all, we continue to de-emphasize the
> one sport in which “men” and “women” really do compete on completely equal
> footing, the fine sport of shooting, all the shooting sports.  Why please?
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