this btw is why we now see some of the TPOT rationalists microdosing street meth as a substitute. also that they're idiots, of course.

somehow this man still has a medical license

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    Messing about with meds for yourself is the sort of thing that gets medical doctors struck off, even if the paperwork is in order, so I would not actually assume that at all. I do think he's dancing on a fine line with essays like this.

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      It reads like adderall bravado to me. From the beginning where he’s confident that his patient’s colleagues are already on it.

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        I would first presume Scott's just like that, and just naturally tends to rambling logorrhea on the order of 10k words a week. I certainly wouldn't post an assumption of any sort of malfeasance on his part, except to the degree even posting this thing that a subculture took as its starting pistol to speed out of their stupid little heads is.

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          As a matter of opinion, I gotta say our brief new friend the other day did give me flashbacks to the one time I interacted with Siskind, even if it’s just that Siskind’s particular style of incoherent personally afflicted grandeur only happens to correlate with how pill heads express theirs

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            I certainly wouldn't post from England and Wales that a medical doctor was in any way abusing a medication. So I would first presume Dr Siskind is just like this.

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              That’s basically what I mean. A fun thing to do in rehab, for example, is to try and figure out who’s still withdrawing and who is just like that

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        Though I’ve not read anything else of his. So could be his regular bravado. Or he could be on a permanent adderall bender.