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We're all on caffeine already and no one is clutching pearls over it. How is taking harder drugs any different other than in effectiveness?
Caffeine wears off quickly, and seems to be good for you. I go off cold turkey once in a while, and the worst I've ever gotten is a week of mild headaches.
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We're all on caffeine already and no one is clutching pearls over it. How is taking harder drugs any different other than in effectiveness?
Caffeine wears off quickly, and seems to be good for you. I go off cold turkey once in a while, and the worst I've ever gotten is a week of mild headaches.
What's good for you are other parts of the coffee bean.
I avoid taking caffeine with any regularity, let alone daily. This is why I can get a full kick from a cup when I need it.
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Brave New World
Exactly. I find it impressive Aldous Huxley wrote it when WW2 was beginning. Before LSD, Prozac, and the Mental Health Crisis.
When I was a child and teen I was a hyperactive, unstimulated, bored, D- student. Ritalin drastically changed that and I was getting A's and teachers described me as a whole different person. I would too: it made me antisocial and jittery and basically robbed me of my humanity. Since then I've found drug-free strategies to manage my intellectual/social Jekyll and Hyde. The idea of performance enhancing drugs making t…
Their proposed evaluation strategy is interesting - playing Go. And they cited Googles AI research using Go as reason behind it.
When I was a child and teen I was a hyperactive, unstimulated, bored, D- student. Ritalin drastically changed that and I was getting A's and teachers described me as a whole different person. I would too: it made me antisocial and jittery and basically robbed me of my humanity. Since then I've found drug-free strategies to manage my intellectual/social Jekyll and Hyde. The idea of performance enhancing drugs making t…
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We're all on caffeine already and no one is clutching pearls over it. How is taking harder drugs any different other than in effectiveness?
There's a reason they are called "hard" drugs.