Lol drink if you like but indisputably it's one of the most physically harmful recreational drugs in common use. Kinda weird to promote it
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Tell us you didn't watch the video without telling us. It addresses this exact point, one of the most common ojectsions in our culture.
It's an hour long II skimmed bits. Not spending a quarter of by recreational time on it.
Nothing I saw addresses how crippling damaging it can be, nor how addictive (acts on mu opiod receptors iirc). There's a case for altered states of consciousness but alcohol is super bad. It's like recommending opium for the community aspect.
He does go into that, especially about how in indigenous communities they seem to lack some kind of resistance to alcohol.
Fun fact: it actually takes a while to get addicted to opium. Months of steady usage.
You also have to have some kind of special receptor to get euphoria from it, which I lack. I just took two (legally prescribed) oxycontin yesterday and didn't get much. They definitely had an affect but not like a couple of bong hits, which I would have preferred frankly.
Fun fact: it actually takes a while to get addicted to opium
You also have to have some kind of special receptor to get euphoria from it, which I lack.
You should probably stop spreading misinformation. No drugs cause immediate physical dependence but every dose changes your body and causes reenforcement learning. It doesn't really make sense to try and find the dose that gets you addicted, it it when you get crippling withdrawls? Or you know all the doses that lead up to that.
Opium is a crude extract (the latex of papaver somniferum, aka breadseed poppy) containing many alkaloids but the primary one that causes pleasure is morphine. Morphine interacts with the mu opiod receptor, activating it. It's possible you might lack it but I am not sure you would work properly, it's very fundamental and regulates so many low level processes (hence why you can stop breathing or get lethally constipated). If you lack it, almost nobody else does.
My brother is opioid resistant and has constant back pain. What he really needs is fentanyl but can't get it due to widespread abuse. Same reason you can't get Ambien after Tiger Woods took it and drove his Rolls-Royce into a ditch. The cops found him sound asleep with the engine running.
Resistance is a real thing, but that's not lacking the receptor. It can be caused by loads of shit from small mutations reducing binding affinity, metabolic differences decreasing halflife, or weird brain shit that reduces the analgesia because you just process pain differently.
If I wanted AI slop I'd ask myself, you don't have to copy-paste. Humans only.
Firstly cheers for like slopjacketting me, idk why you think that I'm just writing what I know dickhead.
Secondly you said you don't have the receptor, and continuing on from that you said your brother has resistance. I was trying to be polite to you by giving you an out from being stupendously wrong by opening the "Oh you might be confused by what resistance entails and how it's different from lacking the receptor" door.
No good dead goes unpunished I guess.
Can't watch the whole thing right now but I disagree with what I saw.
If we want to talk about ancient Eastern philosophy, the fifth precept in Buddhism specifically advises against intoxicating drinks and drugs. While plenty of Buddhists deviate from that in practice, I think they got it right as a general advisory.
People really love the idea of having a "shortcut" or "hack" to reaching a particular state of consciousness, but that kind of defeats the point. It's cliche, but the journey is more important than the destination. Real personal development is not about reaching some special state of consciousness, it's more about reflecting and being able to face yourself in the mirror, "warts and all," and face your demons without turning away.
I drink alcohol sometimes. I happen to be a happy drunk, who can keep it in moderation. But it rubs me wrong when people try to promote some substance as a path to "enlightenment" or "spiritual fulfillment" or whatever. Like, do drugs, drink alcohol, whatever, have fun, but if you're just having fun, be honest with yourself about that. Not everything you do has to have a moral component, and trying to add that to an activity reads as insecurity to me, and it's better to face that insecurity rather than rationalizing it away. Like, I play video games, but you don't see me trying to assign some kind of moral virtue to it.
Promoting alcohol as this "path to enlightenment" is also problematic because alcohol addiction is a real, observable thing. Is it worth causing harm to people who do have issues with it by promoting it? "Screw alcoholics, I need to reach an enlightenment!" is not how anything works.
Did you even watch thevideo? It tidn't talk about spiritual enlightenment.
It touched on it briefly when it mentioned in the pre-columbian Americas they had alcohol brewed wtih hallucinogens.
What did I say? "Can't watch the whole thing right now..."
If it's just "people used to drink alcohol," people used to do lots of things, that doesn't mean much.
I didn't say that, but you'll never know. Maybe look at the AI summary on Youtube's page?
Or ask it questions, specifically this one, about the video? There is a button for that. Or just paste the URL into the Ai of your choice and ask it questions about the video.They slurp youtube auto-transcriptions.
I've never intentionally asked a LLM anything and i don't plan to start
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Yeah I'd like to know. I want to see the smug article that explains to me why me when I was in active addiction almost died from drinking was good and also my mom who drank herself to death was living her best life.
Amen to that. I can only assume that most pro-alcohol articles and videos are alcohol industry propaganda like the fact that every damn tv show everyone inexplicably has a liquor cabinet and always offers someone a drink when they come over for casual conversation.