roland comments on A map of Bay Area memespace - LessWrong

43 Post author: Julia_Galef 23 September 2013 05:34PM

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Comment author: roland 23 September 2013 07:54:58PM 10 points [-]

Psychedelics? Nootropics? I guess they are also a big part connecting lots of those subcultures.

Comment author: Julia_Galef 24 September 2013 06:58:55AM 3 points [-]

Agreed. I might add them to a future version of this map.

This time around I held off mainly because I was confounded by how to add them; drugs really do pervade so many of these groups, in different variants: psychadelics are strong among the counterculture and New Age culture, nootropics are more popular among rationalists and biohackers/Quantified Self, and both are popular among transhumanists. (See this H+ article for a discussion of psychadelic transhumanists.)