Yeah, IRL too. 5-10 years ago there were some biohacking collectives around the Bay Area that did everything from pharmaceuticals to experiments with CRISPR. I don't know if they're still around -- I left that scene when I left the USA a few years ago -- but if you're in the area you might want to give it a look. (As an aside, I heard that a few scene-adjacent people have recently gotten gene-mod therapy; Patri Friedman, for instance, received follistatin therapy.)

Nootropics were a pretty popular trend around the same time, and I knew a lot of guys who would import weird drugs and peptides from Russia and China. It's the same sort of procedure I outlined in my last post, in that you're ordering drugs or drug-active-ingredient-powder from abroad... And then hopefully testing it.

Roughly 10 years ago, when [redacted breakthrough drug] was released, I helped some friends set up a pirate pharmacy. Those were good times.