Re:Cary Grant's LSD Therapy in the 1950s
by _jal on Monday February 24, 2020 @08:22PM
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I think this is mostly right, along with the sort of messy communications you get with anything else.
The conventional wisdom - that LSD is only for Bad People Who Want To Hurt Themselves, or some variation - is being replaced. This doesn't happen by everyone sitting quietly to lectures and then calmly attempting to set each others' expectations to cautiously optimistic, after several more rounds of trials.
No, people get interested, some more enthusiastically than others. Some will do stupid things, others will spread lots of nonsense. I'm sure some people will be hurt/end up dead through no fault of their own. And eventually we find a new normal.
This is just how humans do things. Compare with robocars. Did we wait until level-whatever full autonomy was hit and fully tested? No, we are letting a few people die while getting the bugs worked out.
The conventional wisdom - that LSD is only for Bad People Who Want To Hurt Themselves, or some variation - is being replaced. This doesn't happen by everyone sitting quietly to lectures and then calmly attempting to set each others' expectations to cautiously optimistic, after several more rounds of trials.
No, people get interested, some more enthusiastically than others. Some will do stupid things, others will spread lots of nonsense. I'm sure some people will be hurt/end up dead through no fault of their own. And eventually we find a new normal.
This is just how humans do things. Compare with robocars. Did we wait until level-whatever full autonomy was hit and fully tested? No, we are letting a few people die while getting the bugs worked out.