Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note

Re:Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note by elevenoh on Sunday September 01, 2019 @06:10PM (#20855323)

crypto-facilitated access to psychedelics alone has radically changed 10s of thousands of lives & will have deep long term societal ripples.

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Re:Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note by michaelmrose on Sunday September 01, 2019 @10:37PM (#20856384)

You would need to substantiate that

- A greater number of people took psychedelics because they could now order them via the mail and pay in crypto

- Psychedelics change people's lives meaningfully

- the kind of people who buy drugs on the internet are the kind that are demographically likely to experience positive life changes from psychedelics.

I'm not saying your wrong. I'm more saying send me the link to the book when you write it.

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Re:Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note by elevenoh on Monday September 02, 2019 @10:08AM (#20859180)

'would need to' lol.

What about pragmatic discussions in domains where clear data isn't accessible?

Deriving high probability conclusions from high probability premises?

>A greater number of people took psychedelics because they're more accessible due to anonymous, location independent markets

Likelihood of this not being true approaches zero IMO.

> Psychedelics change people's lives meaningfully

Sufficient research exists to back this up. Michael Pollan's book cites many.

> the kind of people who buy drugs on the internet are the kind that are demographically likely to experience positive life changes from psychedelics.

You may want to note: most would agree by volume, those buying psychs online are also distribute them with their social sphere. The dark net facilitates local area networks of psych access. There's no a 1st order relationship here.

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