[ExI] fax machines and chatgpt

[Keith Henson]

If you look worldwide at another addictive substance, alcohol, you can
see how the problem will solve itself.  Humans have been exposed to
alcohol for 5-10,000 years.  The ones exposed longest have made
evolutionary adjustments.  Greenland natives are about 95%
uncontrollable alcoholics Asians have a "defect" in a gene that
processes alcohol and are relatively resistant.

Making drugs freely available (as you say they are cheap) would solve
the problem (one way or another) for the rest of us.  Places that have
done this generally don't have drug problems.

Keith

On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 9:59 PM spike jones via extropy-chat
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> >...It is.  People get attention and that releases endorphins and dopamine (think opiates and cocaine).  The various step programs provide attention which replaces the effects of various drugs with something more normal.
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> >...Wish you the best.
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> Keith I have a friend who got involved in 12 step programs, not to break an addiction but to help addicts get clean and stay clean.  He was a Mormon since always, never did either drugs or alcohol himself.  But he found he was very good at helping addicts.
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> I wrote he "was" a Mormon.  As far as I can tell, he drifted away from the church.  He may be still mostly sympathetic with it I suppose.
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> A strong argument can be made that those who do not have addictions cannot know what it is like to have them.  I will buy into it.  At the same time, I would argue that addicts pose a risk to the non-addicted.  This is easy enough to see in San Francisco, where they have been importing addicts as fast as they can Hoover them up, from all over the nation and all over the planet.  Now... San Francisco is the place to not be.
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