beriukay comments on Rationality Drugs - Less Wrong

26 Post author: lukeprog 01 October 2011 11:20AM

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Comment author: gwern 30 October 2011 03:01:32PM 2 points [-]

You mustn't done much reading about piracetam because everyone complains about the taste - it's impressively nasty, isn't it? (BTW, if you purchased the powder, I guess you noticed the price difference between the powders and the pills; you should have wondered why there was such a price difference and not then been surprised at the taste.) Anyway, what you can do about it:

  1. hide it with citrus fruit juices (eg. unsweetened grapefruit juice)
  2. cap the piracetam powder (might be a bit expensive if you don't already own a capsule machine and empty pills)
  3. 'parachute' (make pills using toilet paper)
Comment author: beriukay 01 November 2011 07:12:50AM 0 points [-]

You are correct. I basically wiki'd it, glanced at some of the LW material, browsed amazon and saw largely positive reviews for the product. Maybe those people all have capsule-makers.

I'll report back with my experiences with citrus and/or parachuting later. Thanks for the tips!