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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Will Steinberg via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] 27 psychedelics??<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…Why are you so against it? I don't really understand. Upbringing? It seems very anti-learning…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Could be early perceptions are influencing my attitude. When I was a child, rock stars seemed to be dropping dead regularly. Judy Garland (ja I know she wasn’t a rock star, but liked her voice), Alan Wilson, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin were all in the same few weeks as I recall, Jim Morrison was a little later, Mama Cass they half-ass tried to tell us she choked on a ham sandwich, but we suspect it was dope or perhaps heart failure. It did seem like drugs were taking a lotta stars, and ja I realize acid ODs are not fatal usually but in any case, I do admire your openness and honesty about the risks, going crazy and vast nightmare realms. That last part has a poetic ring to it, but I would rather read about it in a poem than live it.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Besides that… it suffices me to hear your description of it, as I play chess.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regarding that last part, it would be an interesting experiment, for that would give us a ton of data. Reasoning: the win/loss number is only a tiny fraction of the data available. The computer analyzes the games and can tell us accuracy, time per move, how many blunders, how many brilliant ideas and so forth, so we could get about 30 good data points per 10 minute game. We could collect a pile of evidence easily. As I said, I will go nowhere near the stuff, any of it. But I will interpret data if someone else wants to give it a go.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>