Comments on: Thank you for doing something ambiguously between smoking and not smoking http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/28/thank-you-for-doing-something-ambiguously-between-smoking-and-not-smoking/ In a mad world, all blogging is psychiatry blogging Fri, 24 Jul 2015 13:45:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3 By: Justen http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/28/thank-you-for-doing-something-ambiguously-between-smoking-and-not-smoking/#comment-80561 Sat, 17 May 2014 17:40:27 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=323#comment-80561 I’m actually one of those tiny fraction of people who were waiting for nicotine to become available in a non-tobacco form (I don’t like lack of dosing control with patches and I loathe chewing gum, so those options were right out). So yes, we do exist. I use it for the mild cognitive enhancing effects. It’s cheaper than caffeine, a habit I keep up mainly for personal pleasure, so the financial problem isn’t that big a deal in my view. Also, thanks to the slight work performance enhancement it might be a net benefit – especially since I’m a freelancer, so higher productivity leads directly toward more pay.

Anyway, food for thought. Great article, thanks.

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]]> By: anon1 http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/28/thank-you-for-doing-something-ambiguously-between-smoking-and-not-smoking/#comment-2339 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:27:03 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=323#comment-2339 You don’t know how much you’re getting, and unless you sacrifice some for testing you don’t know whether it’s LSD at all rather than some other chemical with much less history of safe human use. Knowing the dosage is kind of important.

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]]> By: Douglas Knight http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/28/thank-you-for-doing-something-ambiguously-between-smoking-and-not-smoking/#comment-2287 Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:18:21 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=323#comment-2287 I meant to say “as if people said that debt is fungible,” the point being that people don’t.

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]]> By: Douglas Knight http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/28/thank-you-for-doing-something-ambiguously-between-smoking-and-not-smoking/#comment-2286 Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:16:47 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=323#comment-2286 I don’t like this use of “funge.” It doesn’t seem to have much to do with “fungible.”

Usually people say that money is fungible. The best I can do of making coherent your use of the word is as people said that debt is fungible, but really I don’t think there is any coherence to your usage, let alone connection to the usual usage.

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]]> By: Scott Alexander http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/28/thank-you-for-doing-something-ambiguously-between-smoking-and-not-smoking/#comment-2240 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:43:27 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=323#comment-2240 Oh, cool, in retrospect that does explain the disagreement much better than I’d been able to do before!

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]]> By: Scott Alexander http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/28/thank-you-for-doing-something-ambiguously-between-smoking-and-not-smoking/#comment-2239 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:42:33 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=323#comment-2239 Seems like genetic fallacy.

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]]> By: Scott Alexander http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/28/thank-you-for-doing-something-ambiguously-between-smoking-and-not-smoking/#comment-2238 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:40:31 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=323#comment-2238 Antipsychotics do, in fact, require years of study and regulation to be approved, and a prescription to be distributed. They’re at least as hard to get than nicotine gum, and I don’t think anyone is really itching to get their hands on them.

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]]> By: Doug S. http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/28/thank-you-for-doing-something-ambiguously-between-smoking-and-not-smoking/#comment-2207 Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:20:42 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=323#comment-2207 “Displacing” might be the word you’re looking for, as in “be careful what you’re displacing”.

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]]> By: Army1987 http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/28/thank-you-for-doing-something-ambiguously-between-smoking-and-not-smoking/#comment-2199 Sun, 31 Mar 2013 11:24:57 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=323#comment-2199 I remember a discussion about whether to allow homosexual couples to adopt children in meatspace; after a while, it turned out that Alice thought adoptions by homosexual couples would funge with adoptions by heterosexual couples, Bob thought they would funge with children staying in orphanages, and since “children are better raised by straight couples than by gay ones” and “children are better raised by gay couples than by orphanages” don’t actually disagree, the discussion ended there.

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]]> By: Joe http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/28/thank-you-for-doing-something-ambiguously-between-smoking-and-not-smoking/#comment-2190 Sun, 31 Mar 2013 03:10:01 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=323#comment-2190 It’s probably more dangerous to take illegal drugs

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