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What about drugs in general, not just performance enhancing drugs? I meant, everyone want to participate in modern medical treatment, right?

• pyre 10y ago
  > What about drugs in general, not just performance enhancing drugs? I meant, everyone want to participate in modern medical treatment, right? What? I'm talking about performance-enhancing drugs here because they enhance performance. So everyone else operating in the same space as you will need to also use performance-enhancing drugs if they want to compete. I'm not sure why this is a hard concept to grasp. If there were a pill you could take to turn you into the mythical "10x programmer," the implication of industry-wide usage would be that you would have to start taking that pill to participate in the industry or else you wouldn't be able to keep up.
  • int_19h 10y ago
    We already have such pills, in effect. For example, someone who has depression (a very common ailment), but also has access to drugs that mitigate it, can easily be 10x better programmer relative to someone who has depression but no drugs. Come to think of it, this goes for a lot of other things. Having a car is better than not having one, if only because you shorten commute times, and so have more free time - which translates to better rest and therefore higher productivity, or you could spend it learning new things, again, for higher productivity. So basically anything that improves your quality of life in exchange for money is "performance enhancing" directly or indirectly.
  • hueving 10y ago
    Immunizations are performance enhancing drugs. Shall we ban them?
    • Goronmon 10y ago
      You are using an incorrect definition of "performance enhancing". Your question is easy to answer if you don't start off from an incorrect context.
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