We already have enough people in the Bay Area who keep advising others to take dangerous drugs, with “trust me bro, I am a rationalist, I did my research online”… but then we have overdoses and suicide and people going crazy.
I have plenty of frustration with (mostly psychedelic) drug use in the Bay Area, but I really don’t think this is at all a reasonable summary of a pattern. Did we even ever have any overdoses anywhere?
I also don’t really think approximately any suicides are correlated with drug use. My guess is they are anti-correlated, though mostly for confounder reasons.
I do think some people go crazy because they take psychedelics, but I really don’t think anything would change if people put more disclaimers into their discussions of those drugs. People already put really a lot of disclaimers places.
(I don’t have a take on the massage thread the other day. My prior is that people overall are vastly vastly too hesitant to make recommendations as a result of a liability mindset where you will be held responsible for things going wrong, and not rewarded for things going right, and this is destroying really a huge amount of value in the world, so my guess is I am in favor of the massage guy getting to make his massage recommendations, but I really haven’t done anything but the most cursory skim of that thread)
I have plenty of frustration with (mostly psychedelic) drug use in the Bay Area, but I really don’t think this is at all a reasonable summary of a pattern. Did we even ever have any overdoses anywhere?
I also don’t really think approximately any suicides are correlated with drug use. My guess is they are anti-correlated, though mostly for confounder reasons.
I do think some people go crazy because they take psychedelics, but I really don’t think anything would change if people put more disclaimers into their discussions of those drugs. People already put really a lot of disclaimers places.
(I don’t have a take on the massage thread the other day. My prior is that people overall are vastly vastly too hesitant to make recommendations as a result of a liability mindset where you will be held responsible for things going wrong, and not rewarded for things going right, and this is destroying really a huge amount of value in the world, so my guess is I am in favor of the massage guy getting to make his massage recommendations, but I really haven’t done anything but the most cursory skim of that thread)
Thanks for correcting me on the overdoses.
(I will keep my opinion on the massage thread.)