If you are really smart, does weed accentuate creativity without chinking down your IQ a few points if you do it periodically like de-grasse?

>>16719557 (OP)
A) Don't care what Niel Niggrasse Tyrone has to say. Science education grifters need the rope. It's the Bill Nye model of those who can't, grift normies.

B) Smoking weed as an intelligent person is worse than being retarded and smoking. Here is my personal experience (R&D architect, BSC in physics,math) as a habitual smoker. I am very high functioning and that leads you to condition yourself to disconnect and tune out of complex problem solving through complacency and because you are self aware / can do internal code review you effectively can rationalize turning yourself off every day after work because it doesn't affect your work but ultimately it bombed my hobby engagement with my field. I've been trying to quit for a while but it's cheaper than booze and less of hangover. I probably would have much higher ability to solve problems on the fly and have better short term memory retention if I didn't smoke, but I'm addicted to feeling good in a shit world. It's a curse, stay away unless you can keep it entirely social.

>>16719561
Ok, thanks for this honest take.

Would you have less impact if you were just a couple beers guy instead?

>>16719624
Absolutely. If you are euro 2-3 beers won't even put a dent in your liver but habitually alcoholism I would say is more detrimental to your health than smoking weed. Mind you I said health I'm not including cognitive health. In an ideal world I would just do mushrooms or acid 1s every 6 months but that's harder for me to get / need to have a proper environment to do them in etc.

Bottom line is I am convinced that intelligent people fall for the drug meme more often because they can rationalize doing it and can get away with it professionally. I wish I never touched it but I'm glad I didn't start smoking weed until 19 because everyone I know who started at 16 are actual lobotomized retards with very poor emotional and logical intelligence.

>>16719557 (OP)
I don't think weed has any effects on creativity desu. Take N DeGrass for an example. If you want a creativity boost you're better off trying psychedelics, poetry, visual art, music visualizations, 3 hour long fractal videos, lucid dreaming, chronic insomnia or withdrawal from any drug with an effect on your serotonic distribution. Plus most other drugs besides weed.
What I find truly tragic about weed are its effects on memory, though. Besides everything and how sedative it can be. For weed users the years eventually start to blur.

>>16719636
Could you elaborate on intelligent people being able to rationalize it more? Wouldn't an intelligent person, being intelligent, see the drawbacks and not engage?

>>16719677
I will do my best to be as honest as I can coming from my experience. I also do not claim to be some hyper intelligent sperg because I wouldn't be here if I was. Just past the bellcurve type shit.

For example, if you are a person who has a strong internal monologue and have high spacial / abstract reasoning you tend to overthink or have analysis paralysis / self doubt due to being aware of the Dunning Krueger curve etc. Now place yourself in a position where you are stuck due to external factors such as an arbitrary distinction between a junior electrical engineer and an applied physicist (in my experience and research background, my physics prof basically told me to learn to be an electrical engineer if I ever wanted to see the fruits of my labor as a physics nigga). I am very frustrated at the fact that I am gate kept by a jewish/boomer cabal professional designation authority (APEGA) to do jobs that have nothing to do with safety stamping or other official stamping simply because I'm not an engineer by degree (even though both are bachelor's of science).

I can't chimp out and throw away my life, mediocre job, gf etc and find the licensing board members houses. I can't just "work harder" and "do more" in the moment, best I can do is consulting pertaining embedded systems architecture but that requires at least half a decade with an impressive portfolio that generated income. I can't go back to university because I need the job to pay off current student loans. Time is passing but not fast enough to speedrun macro goals that simply are time gated.

What to do? Enter weed. It effectively numbs me to the torture that is my internal monologue and pattern recognition. It's a way to turn yourself off for the night instead of spending the entire dog walk thinking about how your boss is an immoral kike. For me it's a means to be complacent and tank "putting in your time", and come to terms with things that are out of my control as a control craving person.

I thought Neil was a nofun type of guy who refuses to do any sort of drug?

>>16719561
I regret smoking weed at such a young age but I honest to god just cannot cope with real life otherwise. I’m not satisfied with anything and I’ve been like even before I started smoking.

>>16719684
A whole bunch of things that don't make you happy.
Dude weed.
And the pattern continues.

>>16720070
Epic contribution to the discussion. Mind weighing in instead of being a faggot?

>>16720083
No.

>>16719557 (OP)
Weed makes you think you are brilliant as you annoy everyone around you. Like every stupid thing you say you think is profound. Not that it's fun to be sober around high/drunk people anyway.

>>16719684
>growing the embedded portfolio
How does that go while high? I quit around when Covington started, because I was getting emotionally unstable during the day and tptb went crazy so I couldn't be. I switched to every other night, just on weekends etc., and maybe NAC helped a bit. Anyways at the time I would write much more about things that are still funny, so maybe these days an LLM like the ones accessible with github copilot can turn a dude weed aesthetic sense into cruelty-free code.

>>16720926
Well I wouldn't get fucked up at work but it effectively killed my drive to any embedded dev at home. Honestly there's so much context to the weird work scenario I'm in that it's hard to explain without sounding crazy.

Here's a taste, like I'm paying for chatGPT enterprise out of pocket so I can do the jobs of 3 people at the same time. I don't really see any point in lurking on stack exchange or spending 2-3 hours on something I can debug in 20 minutes that o3 pro shat out. I am stagnating because of that but I can't really not do it because my value comes from being able to do a million things at once in this small company.

I'm actively trying to find a job where I'll be a bit over employed so I can feel the pressure and grind again. Couple days sober too rn. Hope we all make it bros.

>>16719557 (OP)
All weed does is quell inhibition so you're a tedious fucking motormouth who's constantly marveling over the first thing that pops into his head at all times. Go ahead and argue...you know I'm right.

>>16721187
This anon may have cracked the distinction between midwits who smoke and turn into pseuds. Personally I've seen more people go non verbal, including myself. My internal monologue is very active, to me weed just turns that off for a bit or slows it down. Only times I've gotten yappy on weed is when my gf is on some femoid shit and I put on my unlicensed therapist and professional woman gaslighter hat.

>>16719557 (OP)
I'm so tired of this astroturfed n
Reminder that n and science will never be a thing