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Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface

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433 points cainxinth | 2 comments | 11 Jul 25 11:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.469s | source
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fedeb95 ◴[11 Jul 25 12:18 UTC] No.44531293[source]▶
thinking that our own judgement is better than a doctor judgement, supported by a vast community and shared knowledge, is epistemically interesting. Beware that I'm not saying that doctors, or the scientific community, can't be wrong, everyone can be wrong, even ourselves.

Personally, I'd rather have a proper doctor prescribe me said medicine than take it myself.

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RamblingCTO ◴[11 Jul 25 12:44 UTC] No.44531486[source]▶
I'd say it's irrelevant. Doctors typically have no exposure, interest nor knowledge about these things. So they are not the ones to have an opinion about it.
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1. JKCalhoun ◴[11 Jul 25 13:05 UTC] No.44531685[source]▶
We should fix that then. (Timothy Leary was in fact a doctor. Perhaps though his overly zealous enthusiasm for LSD makes him not the ideal example in this case though.)
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2. RamblingCTO ◴[11 Jul 25 13:35 UTC] No.44531966[source]▶
Not sure tbh. This is still in its infancy and not "stable" enough for a bigger adoption rate. So while we're still researching I feel like it's ok that we don't get it out to the masses.