Hacker News Reader

> The drink lowers the effective IQ, bringing them into a much wider communication range.

Or it just disinhibits them and lowers social anxiety. It's not the most widely used social lubricant for nothing.

Of course. I said one of the reasons, not the only reason. I just wish I could connect with more people without drinking. There are a few people I can do that with, but they're few and far between.

I tried giving all my friends psychedelics, but most of them preferred the beer. I'll have to keep looking.

Try chemical empathogens instead of alcohol. They do work just as well when the others didn't take them ;)

Pardon me for showing my ignorance, but what chemicals are considered empathogens?

mdma is the most common (and thus somewhat well researched), but there are quite a few, though barely any of them legal (or rather: not yet illegal in the case of most "research chemicals", RC for short).

Reply on news.ycombinator.com