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Do you think someone else could have done it at the time?

This guy made a randomized blind LSD microdosing self-experiment and according to that experiment it doesn't seem to be very effective.

edit. As noted by didgeriduff, the person who made this experiment wasn't depressed, so it might not be possible to generalize this data to depressed people.

What is Gaspar Noe like in person?

Hi, thanks for doing this AMA

• If you had unlimited funds at your disposal, what kind of strategy precisely would you use to get to the goal (AGI) as quickly as possible? How unlimited funds would affect the process? Is the talent there to take advantage of more funding? Is the infrastructure in place to support it?

• How important is Friendly AI research? Do you think it’s too early to start thinking about Friendly AI and the top priority at the moment is just to pursue progress at any means available?

• Do you think a possibly unfriendly superintelligent AI that was running on an isolated computer, only able to interact with the rest of the world via text interface, would be able to break out of its confinement by persuading YOU to release it? (I'm refering to this: http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox )

Are you talking about 4-ACO-DMT? It's metabolized into psilocin the same way as psilocybin. But I thought that when people refer to DMT they are talking about N,N-Dimethyltryptamine or 5-MEO-DMT which has an oxygen molecule attached to it, so it's a different molecule. I also got these mixed up once.