Comment by aleph_minus_one
1 day ago
> A puritian dream. Pay, sinner, pay for your hedonistic pleasures!
I am not aware of such uses for alcohol, but for hallocinogenic drugs, there exist people who don't use them for hedonistic pleasures, but for getting creative, scientific or spiritual inspirations.
Early in my career in the 90s, I knew more than one programmer who claimed to be most productive when buzz-coding.
I never really understood it. To me, focusing intently on a task always seemed like a good way to kill a nice buzz.
Cannabis works for me with coding in the right dose and time, but alcohol not at all.
Huh?
Alcohol not used for creativity?
Ask all the writers who drank themself to death .. or rather, how many writers didn't become alcoholics at some point.
(But personally I don't like alcohol for creativity)
> Alcohol not used for creativity?
> Ask all the writers who drank themself to death
I know the names of some famous writers who drank too much, but I am very much willing to admit that people who are using alcohol for creativity are far outside the bubble of people who I am surrounded with, so I can legitimately claim that from my personal life I am not aware of any single example of this phenomenon.
Yes, but to be pedantic, your claim was "I am not aware of such uses for alcohol", not that you are not aware of such uses in your personal life ..