Readit NewsI think what Evans did actually violated set and setting, but it's possible this article is just poorly framed. He did enough LSD on his first trip in a packed club to experience depersonalization. To me a review of set and setting would've told me three of those things are a bad idea. He later then went to do a drug like Ayahuasca in a foreign country under a cultural practice he likely didn't appreciate. Again, things set and setting would tell me are likely not a good idea - at the very least that I should build up to. For the unfamiliar, I view both things he did like climbing Mt Hood and Mt Everest as an amateur with barely adequate gear.
I think he should continue to tell his stories, maybe even post them to Erowid or the Psychonaut wiki where there are similar warnings. That said, I'm not super convinced he's challenged the theory of set and setting.
Among the things that people often sell as LSD, some have dangerously steep dose-response curves like 25I-NBOMe, some are pretty close analogues like AL-LAD.
None outright cause bad trips, and most or all of them are also sold with their proper labels and enjoyed by enthusiasts.
But the more reasonable proposal I heard was just to call it New Years Day/Weekend, depending?
I love how his stories grow in scope (one discovery plausibly leads to another and eventually interdimensional travel). I know Adrian Tchaikovsky is a popular recommendation around here (especially Children of Time and rightfully so), but I'm looking for something with less drama / less character-driven. The 3 body problem is a good example.
Also tangential but I recommend trying Last and First Idol for anyone looking for ridiculous, gory, self-consistent sci-fi.
Blindsight by Peter Watts is also fantastic, same grade as Egan IMO.
I'm most excited by people such as Terraform Industries and others who I've heard talk about direct synthesis from atmospheric carbon. Though I just looked them up here and there seems to have been surprisingly little traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30202155
Overall, the sentence means that fear can lead to an exaggerated or obsessive moral response. This implies that when someone is afraid, they might stick rigidly to their moral code or make moral judgments more extremely or rigidly than they would in a state of calmness."
seems fair
Edit: My gloss of the summary: "Fear creates a hardon for scapegoats among the pitchfork wielders."
Here was an amusing one that just happened to me:
- query
- answer with hallucination-- 'try X' and citations
- sorry, that doesnt work
- oh, there must have been a mistake in the source material! please try Y
- works, thanks
I looked at the original source material, and the thing it hallucinated wasn't there at all :'). Nice try passing the buck GPT old buddy!
Edit: I'm still chuckling about this: "And finally, keep an eye on the Git version you're using. Some newer features like --no-attributes (although it turned out to be non-existent in this case) won't be available in the older versions."
SATOR
AREPO
TENET
OPERA
ROTAS
(Very easy to commit to memory too since most of the letters are right there in the name!)