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No, I did not.

I have had LSD. I've taken like, 100μg maybe once, 50-75 a couple times, 25ish once or twice. No lasting consequences that I would personally consider severe, though other people would disagree I think? Like, from my perspective I have a couple weird long-shot hypotheses bouncing around my head that I haven't firmly disproven but which mostly have no impact on my behavior other than making me act slightly superstitious at times.

I had a serious psychotic episode, like, once, which didn't involve any actual attempts to induce it but did involve a moment where I was like "okay trying to hold myself fully to normality here isn't really important, let's just actually think about the crazy hypotheses." I think I had 10mg cannabis a few days before that, and it'd been like a month since I'd had any LSD. That was in late August.

Sapph is referring to @AprilSR [LW · GW] (I'm involved in the situation, she's also commented down below confirming it to be her)

....is the second person me? You can say it is if it's me, I don't think it's an inaccurate description. Edit: thought about it a bit more and yeah it is probably me

my view is that this particular vassarite is probably a fair amount more harmful than most, though i don't actually know any others very closely

I'm familiar with the events that Sapph refers to, and for the most part agree with the general description of them as well as the recommendations. If you don't want to become psychotic, don't do the things that are famously associated with becoming psychotic.

...did you try to 'induce psychosis' in yourself by taking psychedelics? If so I would also ask about how much you took and if you had any severe or long-lasting consequences.

(I am happy to answer questions I just don't want to get into an argument.)

I don't actually want to litigate the details here, but I think describing me as "literally schizophrenic" is taking things a bit far.

+9. This is at times hilarious, at times upsetting story, of how a man gained a massive amount of power and built a corrupt empire. It's a psychological study, as well as a tale of a crime, hand-in-hand with a lot of naive ideologues.

I think it is worthwhile for understanding a lot about how the world currently works, including understanding individuals with great potential for harm, the crooked cryptocurrency industry, and the sorts of nerds in the world who falsely act in the name of good.

I don't believe that all the details here are fully accurate, but that enough of it is to be a worthy story to read.

(It is personally upsetting to me that the person who was ~King over me and everyone I knew professionally and personally turned out to be such a spiritually-hollow crook, and to know how close I am to being in a world where his reign continues.)

Events are recent and to some extent ongoing. Though the 'now they are literally schizophrenic' event occurred some months ago. Pacific northwest. I do not believe this particular incident.

A second person has now had a schizophrenic episode. This occurred a few days ago. Though I do not think the second person will end up persistently schizophrenic.

I am not talking about any of the more well known cases.

The idea that people would do these things in the 'rationalist' community is truly horrifying to me. I am a believer in doing somewhat innovative or risky things. But you are supposed to do them somewhat safely.