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Is it new though? Erdős famously took amphetamines all his life. The only drug Tarn Adams (Dwarf Fortress creator) ever tried was meth during his Maths degree.
by tokai 5y ago
Is it new though? Erdős famously took amphetamines all his life. The only drug Tarn Adams (Dwarf Fortress creator) ever tried was meth during his Maths degree. Stims and academia seems like a classic combination to me.
- MontyCarloHall 5y agoCertainly academics have used amphetamines since their discovery, but it was my understanding people like Erdős were anomalies. Assuming the tweet is true, stims are being used by an unprecedentedly high proportion of students. Perhaps there are no ill health effects at mild to moderate doses, but I just don’t think they’ve been used widely enough until recently to definitively draw conclusions either way.