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The original post has bad math. 1000x .170mg is "1,000 times less than a fifth of a milligram," not 1000 times a fifth of a gram. http://www.gwern.net/Nootrop
by efm 12y ago
The original post has bad math.
1000x .170mg is "1,000 times less than a fifth of a milligram," not 1000 times a fifth of a gram.
http://www.gwern.net/Nootropics#lithium http://www.gwern.net/Nootropics#lithium has a significant number of references to the literature on lithium, and is worth reading.
- meowface 12y agoGwern's writeups on nootropics are some of the best you'll find on the Internet. Honestly, his writeups on most things are pretty spot on.
- jonnathanson 12y agoGwern's writings on nootropics are particularly fascinating. They read like the works of a mad scientist (in a good way). Erudite, meticulous, and also a tiny bit reckless. Gwern treats himself like a human guinea pig, then documents and analyzes the results more carefully than I've seen in some research papers. The whole process, furthermore, reads like a dialogue between Gwern and the reader. To be more precise, it reads like a dialogue between Gwern and Gwern's imagined idea of a highly intelligent reader -- a reader whose place you find yourself wanting to fill. Gwern's archive is eccentric, to say the least. But it's one of the best places on the web to lose oneself for an afternoon.
- meowface 12y agoCouldn't have said it better myself.
- emmelaich 12y agoGood catch, though you should avoid 'x times less/more than ..' Better is 'one thousandth of a fifth of a milligram'