I’ve talked to Michael Vassar many times in person. I’m somewhat confident he has taken LSD based on him saying so (although if this turned out wrong I wouldn’t be too surprised, my memory is hazy)
I definitely have the experiencing of him saying lots of things that sound very confusing and crazy, making pretty outlandish brainstormy-style claims that are maybe interesting, which he claims to take as literally true, that seem either false, or, at least require a lot of inferential gap. I have also heard him make a lot of morally charged, intense statements that didn’t seem clearly supported.
(I do think I have valued talking to Michael, despite this, he is one of the people who helped unstick me in certain ways, but, the mechanism by which he helped me was definitely via being kinda unhinged sounding.)
I’ve talked to Michael Vassar many times in person. I’m somewhat confident he has taken LSD based on him saying so (although if this turned out wrong I wouldn’t be too surprised, my memory is hazy)
I would take bets at 9:1 odds that Michael has taken large amounts of psychedelics. I would also take bets at similar odds that he promotes the use of psychedelics.
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I’ve talked to Michael Vassar many times in person. I’m somewhat confident he has taken LSD based on him saying so (although if this turned out wrong I wouldn’t be too surprised, my memory is hazy)
I definitely have the experiencing of him saying lots of things that sound very confusing and crazy, making pretty outlandish brainstormy-style claims that are maybe interesting, which he claims to take as literally true, that seem either false, or, at least require a lot of inferential gap. I have also heard him make a lot of morally charged, intense statements that didn’t seem clearly supported.
(I do think I have valued talking to Michael, despite this, he is one of the people who helped unstick me in certain ways, but, the mechanism by which he helped me was definitely via being kinda unhinged sounding.)
I would take bets at 9:1 odds that Michael has taken large amounts of psychedelics. I would also take bets at similar odds that he promotes the use of psychedelics.