Relevant bit of social data: Olivia is the most irresponsible-with-drugs person I’ve ever met, by a sizeable margin; and I know of one specific instance (not a person named in your comment or any other comments on this post) where Olivia gave someone an ill-advised drug combination and they had a bad time (though not a psychotic break).
gave someone an ill-advised drug combination and they had a bad time
I don’t remember specific names, but something similar happened at one of the first rationality minicamps. Technically, this was not about drugs but some supplements (i.e. completely legal things), but there was someone mixing various kinds of powders and saying “yeah, trust me, I have a lot of experience with this, I did a lot of research, it is perfectly safe to take a dose this high, really”, and then an ambulance had to be called.
So, I assume you meant that Olivia goes even far beyond this, right?
My memory of the RBC incident you’re referring to was that it wasn’t supplements that did it, it was a caffeine overdose from energy drinks leading into a panic attack. But there were certainly a lot of supplements around and they could’ve played a role I didn’t know about.
When I say that I believe Olivia is irresponsible with drugs, I’m not excluding the unscheduled supplements, but the story I referred to involved the scheduled kind.
Relevant bit of social data: Olivia is the most irresponsible-with-drugs person I’ve ever met, by a sizeable margin; and I know of one specific instance (not a person named in your comment or any other comments on this post) where Olivia gave someone an ill-advised drug combination and they had a bad time (though not a psychotic break).
I don’t remember specific names, but something similar happened at one of the first rationality minicamps. Technically, this was not about drugs but some supplements (i.e. completely legal things), but there was someone mixing various kinds of powders and saying “yeah, trust me, I have a lot of experience with this, I did a lot of research, it is perfectly safe to take a dose this high, really”, and then an ambulance had to be called.
So, I assume you meant that Olivia goes even far beyond this, right?
My memory of the RBC incident you’re referring to was that it wasn’t supplements that did it, it was a caffeine overdose from energy drinks leading into a panic attack. But there were certainly a lot of supplements around and they could’ve played a role I didn’t know about.
When I say that I believe Olivia is irresponsible with drugs, I’m not excluding the unscheduled supplements, but the story I referred to involved the scheduled kind.