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Nailed it. A lot of the "I did this and it had great effects" are compounded with "I did this and it ruined my life" and a bit of "I did this and it ruined my

by qz2 6y ago

Nailed it. A lot of the "I did this and it had great effects" are compounded with "I did this and it ruined my life" and a bit of "I did this and it ruined my life and everyone around me". I suspect the human mind is tailored to promote the first outcome and stick it's fingers in its metaphorical ears about the last two outcomes. Turns out we need actual formal studies and even those aren't necessarily conclusive so it's best to err on the side of caution.

mimac 6y ago
Good evidence that big doses work: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0269881120919957 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/026988112091995...
- qz2 6y ago
  I’m sure that is caveated on some people and for some conditions. I’d expect a better standard and more research to be defined here or we’ll end up with another paroxetine mess on our hands. I lost a decade of my life to cleaning up after that mess and that was just a family member’s encounter with it. What is factual is that things are invariably more complicated than they look when it comes to human minds. Look up “study 329” for an example of complexity.
dmurray 6y ago
> I suspect the human mind is tailored to promote the first outcome and stick it's fingers in its metaphorical ears about the last two outcomes. It's more complicated than that. Plenty of people hear the bad outcomes and stick their fingers in their ears about the good ones. The subject of recreational drug use is a particularly good one for eliciting this behaviour, both for and against. The interesting questions are how people in the same society get primed for one reaction over the other, and how we can individually avoid this behaviour and approach controversial topics with an open mind.
- adamsea 6y ago
  And (although I think you kinda said this), different people may respond in different ways.

by qz2 6y ago

mimac 6y ago

Good evidence that big doses work: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0269881120919957 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/026988112091995...

qz2 6y ago
I’m sure that is caveated on some people and for some conditions. I’d expect a better standard and more research to be defined here or we’ll end up with another paroxetine mess on our hands. I lost a decade of my life to cleaning up after that mess and that was just a family member’s encounter with it. What is factual is that things are invariably more complicated than they look when it comes to human minds. Look up “study 329” for an example of complexity.

dmurray 6y ago

> I suspect the human mind is tailored to promote the first outcome and stick it's fingers in its metaphorical ears about the last two outcomes. It's more complicated than that. Plenty of people hear the bad outcomes and stick their fingers in their ears about the good ones. The subject of recreational drug use is a particularly good one for eliciting this behaviour, both for and against. The interesting questions are how people in the same society get primed for one reaction over the other, and how we can individually avoid this behaviour and approach controversial topics with an open mind.

adamsea 6y ago
And (although I think you kinda said this), different people may respond in different ways.