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Even single doses of acid are enough to change your outlook on life _substantially_. Imagine running a db migration on prod while it's live and you have no backups.

This is what consousness tinkering with drugs is like.




That's a terrible analogy, because everything we're doing, every day of our life, is essentially like tinkering with no backup.

If you could take a backup of our brain from then it would be a common recommendation to take a backup before driving.

If you think along those lines, you could end up concluding that you shouldn't do anything fun or explorative if there's any significant risk at all.


No, everyday life is like running with no backup. A 5 minute conversation with the average hippie shows you that acid is quite different.




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