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“ We have unusually strong marketing connections; Vitalik approves of us; Aella is a marketing advisor on this project; SlateStarCodex is well aware of us. We are quite networked in the Effective Altruism space. We could plausibly get an Elon tweet. ”

From the short investor spiel document. Also they want to just bypass the FDA?

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[-] swlabr@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ok I figured out how to salvage it. People come on and pitch sensible business ideas that get shot down. We’d also get quotes like:

Aella: “If I take on an advisory role, will I be required to shower?”

Pinker: draws line up and to the right on graph “This problem is already as good as solved. I don’t see why any action on my part is necessary.”

EY: “You do not think in sufficient detail, and for that reason, I’m out.”

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 0 points 1 year ago

okay what's with the showering thing? second reference I see to that now

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago
[-] m@blat.at 1 points 1 year ago

@dgerard I’m probably missing something but what is it about these folk and Adderall? They can’t all have self-diagnosed ADHD.. (having an actual psychiatric diagnosis thereof means that I’m just a mean-spirited gatekeeper who thinks people shouldn’t just decide for themselves that they have a serious mental condition and start popping random pills)

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

this was discussed on here recently, scroll to the post for more

[-] m@blat.at 1 points 1 year ago

@froztbyte Oh, I missed that. So, boring people thinking they can make themselves less boring through pharmaceutical means. 15 years ago it was smart drugs (which weren’t, but that didn’t stop the Bay Area jumping onto that bandwagon with both feet).

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