Interesting.
I don’t know the mechanism of action, but it seems unlikely that this is acting as an antibiotic to have this effect.
More likely that minocycline is acting directly as a stimulant-blocker, dopamine-blocker or oxytocin-blocker.
Next experiment: examine the effect of stepped doses of modafinil and nasal administered oxytocin to see if they might ‘rescue’ the sweetness of the honey trap.
+1 for ‘Cat is awesome’.
I was just speaking to her on Facebook. Couch space already being prepared in Edinburgh, UK!
Not quite a community forum, but I find comments at http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.co.uk can be interesting.
There is also reddit.com/r/neuro and reddit.com/r/cogsci—but they are both fledgling and susceptible to popsci.
Cool. Don’t worry—it seems there are several with similar interest in an Edinburgh meetup.
Once I’m back from the minicamp I would be keep to have another meetup, perhaps sometime 6-11th August.
When would you like to have one? I could imagine there might be interest in one before then. Why not be the agentyness you wish to see in the world? :)
I know a few coming on Friday—I will report back with any thoughts for future meetings.
NOTE—slight change of plan.
It seems Aspen Bar and Grill is temporarily closed.
Instead—let’s go to Biblos.
It’s the restaurant on the corner of Chambers St and South Bridge. I’ve got us a big table upstairs booked, along with some nachos and 35% off all food.
See you there!
Cool—I am away at the LW July minicamp in California, but I think I get back in Edinburgh around the 5th August.
I would be up for a meetup then.
I am glad to see there is interest, even if you can’t make this one.
I’m happy with outside 9-5, but I know some would-be regulars have other events on several weekday evenings. How about Sundays?
Aspen is unlikely to be too crowded on a Friday lunchtime and I think will be happy to have any custom from our group. I am open to alternatives, but it has the advantages of: public place, free entry, big group tables, bright, cheap-ish food and coffee, (hopefully) uncrowded.
I am happy to host in future, but I thought a public place is better to start with.
I’m aware that my caffeine use might have little benefit to total productivity over the course of a week.
I do attach value to using caffeine to choose to be less susceptible to tiredness for the next few hours.
Does that make sense?
Ah—I found some details for the Eliezer’s potential Center for Modern Rationality: http://hpmor.com/modern-rationality/
Thanks for putting this together—I am intrigued by a mini-camp.
One of the questions in the application form is tickbox for “Interested in potentially working for CMR”.
Could someone give some more detail on that question?
A google of “site:lesswrong.com CMR” didn’t give me anything useful.
Thanks for posting this, Sark. I’ll be there.
See you there.
Rather than an e-cig, I currently occasionally use a portable vaporiser, into which I place hand-rolling tobacco.
It raises the raw tobacco to around 250*C, so nicotine is carried in gas and can be inhaled. Nothing is combusted. It’s slightly larger than a AA battery and it looks like this.
This gives more nicotine hit, much less lung cancer than smoking and uses cheaper consumable materials than e-cig (you can buy hand-rolling tobacco everywhere, need less than depleting possibly-expensive e-cig cartridges).
It is also likely that this vaporising gives more MAOI hit than e-cig, contributing to both the high and addictive properties. Wiki link
Subjectively, I enjoy this more than than a e-cig. I have actively promoted the use to this device to friends to try to get them off cigarettes.