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Re: The Acid King (2001)

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Post by nlawalker »

0_____0 wrote: post #28
3dsnano wrote: post #25

Prior to the LLM age, I found it very difficult to program while on LSD or psychedelics. I just could not sustain the logical inference needed to keep track. However, using a voice dictation program combined with a usb foot pedal and cursor, I have overcome this impasse in an interesting way. What was once the Ballmer peak, I should perhaps rename the Pickard Pinnacle. What a time 2B alive.

It's a bit shocking to me that one would try to program on LSD - can you say a bit more about what you're up to? Personally I feel I save the experience for when I have a question of life and would benefit from a perspective shift. Or might enjoy a different experience of being in nature.

Previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=654168

Re: The Acid King (2001)

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Post by ty6853 »

Aurornis wrote: post #30
cypherpunks01 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Has he been doing well? I'd read he met Ross Ulbricht in USP Tucson when they were both serving life without the possibility of parole. I hope they can reconnect now that they're both free.

I’m kind of perplexed by the way Ross Ulbricht is held up as a hero after he was caught spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to hire hitmen to murder multiple people. Usually when I bring this up people try to change the subject to the FBI agent who tried to steal crypto or they suggest that there wasn’t enough evidence to support the claims (the court found that by a preponderance of the evidence he sent the me…

The jury is out on whether the accounts linked to the hiring of the 'hitmen' was exclusively under the control of Ross Ulbricht.

The 'preponderance' was found by a judge, not a jury, so it's a different threshold than say demanding a jury in a civil suit where the jury would make a finding on preponderance. You effectively have a jury of one, where that jury member is highly intertwined with the same federal government that is prosecuting the crime, in a way that would surely eliminate them in voire dire for an impartial jury.

Re: The Acid King (2001)

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Post by Mizza »

3dsnano wrote: post #25

Prior to the LLM age, I found it very difficult to program while on LSD or psychedelics. I just could not sustain the logical inference needed to keep track. However, using a voice dictation program combined with a usb foot pedal and cursor, I have overcome this impasse in an interesting way. What was once the Ballmer peak, I should perhaps rename the Pickard Pinnacle. What a time 2B alive.

What does the foot pedal do? On/off for the recorder?

Re: The Acid King (2001)

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Post by financetechbro »

3dsnano wrote: post #25

Prior to the LLM age, I found it very difficult to program while on LSD or psychedelics. I just could not sustain the logical inference needed to keep track. However, using a voice dictation program combined with a usb foot pedal and cursor, I have overcome this impasse in an interesting way. What was once the Ballmer peak, I should perhaps rename the Pickard Pinnacle. What a time 2B alive.

What kind of programs are you churning out under this mental state?

Re: The Acid King (2001)

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Post by krispyfi »

GuinansEyebrows wrote: post #14
empath75 wrote: post #11

I think people might under appreciate how easy LSD was to get in the US in the 90s and early 2000s. I was living in a fairly boring suburb, and was a complete nerd and had access to as much LSD as I wanted at less than $5 a hit when I was in high school in the mid 90s, and it continued to be easy to find well into the early 2000s.

Strychnine will do that :( Edit to add: i'm just talking about the rash of strychnine poisonings related to LSD usage in the early 2000s. it put a real damper on the party for a long time and for a lot of people.

Do you have a source for that? Wikipedia says it's an urban legend. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_legends_about_drugs?se...

Re: The Acid King (2001)

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Post by GuinansEyebrows »

krispyfi wrote: post #35
GuinansEyebrows wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Strychnine will do that :( Edit to add: i'm just talking about the rash of strychnine poisonings related to LSD usage in the early 2000s. it put a real damper on the party for a long time and for a lot of people.

Do you have a source for that? Wikipedia says it's an urban legend. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_legends_about_drugs?se...

Not really but urban legend or not, it scared a lot of people off the stuff for a while.

Re: The Acid King (2001)

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Post by codr7 »

3dsnano wrote: post #25

Prior to the LLM age, I found it very difficult to program while on LSD or psychedelics. I just could not sustain the logical inference needed to keep track. However, using a voice dictation program combined with a usb foot pedal and cursor, I have overcome this impasse in an interesting way. What was once the Ballmer peak, I should perhaps rename the Pickard Pinnacle. What a time 2B alive.

Computers and hallucinogenics are a lousy combo in every possible way. Even if you manage to interface, they're still digital, which just limits your experience.

My advice is to write/draw your ideas while tripping and save the digital stuff for later.

Trees and flowers is a much better focus, animals; as analog, natural and physical as possible. Playing instruments is nice if that's your thing.

Take or leave.

Re: The Acid King (2001)

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Post by cadamsdotcom »

dang wrote: post #7

Related: LSD chemist William Pickard to be released from prison - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23947157 - July 2020 (375 comments) The "Acid King," Serving Life Without Parole - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12211097 - Aug 2016 (25 comments) Other (more loosely) related threads: The LSD Museum (2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36673288 - July 2023 (25 comments) Owsley Stanley: The King of L…

Hey dang, not suggesting anyone do it - but...

A tool which creates this post for you (probably shouldn't post it because slop, but just making the draft) could be a fun project!

Re: The Acid King (2001)

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Post by 0_____0 »

nlawalker wrote: post #31
0_____0 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a bit shocking to me that one would try to program on LSD - can you say a bit more about what you're up to? Personally I feel I save the experience for when I have a question of life and would benefit from a perspective shift. Or might enjoy a different experience of being in nature.

Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=654168

Found this one anecdote in that thread and I'm pretty sure this would be me as well.

> I tried to code on shrooms once.

> I ended up writing a C++ program that just made the internal speaker beep in an infinite loop, and tried to compile it with a C compiler.

> I started laughing hysterically and I became quite scared that the C compiler was going to get angry with me, so I went outside and stayed away from my computer in fear.

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