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I'm thinking about writing a more comprehensive guide than Skatche's Rationalist's Guide to Psychoactive Drugs. In addition to the substances described in Skatche's guide I would discuss the risks, benefits and possible fields of applications of e.g. benzodiazepines, GHB, opioids and various research chemicals.
Is anyone interested in this kind of stuff? You don't have to comment, upvoting suffices (saves time and gives me precious karma).
And I'm a bit worried that this kind of post falls under the new censorship laws. What do those in power on LessWrong think about that?
The "Lesswrong censorship laws" speak of illegal violence. Possession of drugs might be illegal but isn't violence.
My analysis:
Do your posts look like solicitation to possess illegal drugs with intend to distribute? (Hint: for anything short of "Please tell me where to buy drugs," the answer is probably no).
Could a malicious prosecutor convince a grand jury to indict Eliezer (or others) as co-conspirators based on what you have written? (Hint: probably not).
In short, you are probably fine. But I am not a "power" on LW.
Just to be clear, I doubt this is Eliezer's thought process. But I suspect it is a fairly accurate heuristic for what is and isn't acceptable.
I agree with your analysis. However, the fact that some people are expressing concern that their comments might violate the new censorship policy suggests that others might abstain, or have already abstained, from posting valuable material to this forum, which in turn increases my credence that the censorship policy does more harm than good.
"Avoid compartmentalisation, but don't talk about your results from doing so too loudly."
In context, this 2010 post (capture) is interesting: current version is about deaths of tobacco company employees, but it was changed after comments from the original, which was about slowing the computer industry to slow AI progress.
Interesting. As far as I can see, though, the screencap shows the revised version about deaths of tobacco company employees, not the original version.
Yes, the capture is recent.
When in doubt, frame all drug talk as harm reduction.
There are a lot of things that that didn't cover. Go for it!
Have you read gwern's writings (under “Practical”) about melatonin, modafinil, nicotine, and other nootropics?
I have read about and tried many of them.