Nootropics Depot
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Nootropics Depot is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between April 28, 2021 and November 16, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “48 recs: Nootropics Depot”; “Pretty-Chill on the Nootropics Depot subreddit”; “‘MYASD of Nootropics Depot writes’“. It most often appears alongside Bay Area, modafinil, modafinil.
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- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 4
- Issue count: 4
- First seen: April 28, 2021
- Last seen: November 16, 2022
Appears In
- Nootropics Survey 2020 Results
- Links For October
- Highlights From The Comments On Supplement Labeling
- The Psychopharmacology Of The FTX Crash
Related Pages
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- Bay Area (2 shared issues)
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- modafinil (2 shared issues)
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- modafinil (2 shared issues)
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- Twitter (2 shared issues)
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- 2020 SSC nootropics survey (1 shared issues)
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- 852 (1 shared issues)
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- @AutismCapital (1 shared issues)
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- @literalbanana (1 shared issues)
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- ACX (1 shared issues)
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- Adderall (1 shared issues)
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- ADHD (1 shared issues)
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- adrafinil (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Results were generally predictable and unexciting (with one exception I'll get to soon). People thought stimulants worked better than non-stimulants, addictive substances better than non-addictive substances, and well-known mainstays better than new experimental chemicals. As on previous surveys, branded combination pills did worse than individual substances. For example, Nootropics Depot's Dynamax, a mixture of several fancy types of caffeine and caffeine-like chemicals, did significantly worse than ordinary caffeine. Nootropics Depot has a lot of smart, careful people, so I don't think they bungled the mixture. I think people just expect more out of branded products, and penalize them when they don't perform better. Since all tests were open label, I have no way of knowing how much of the results were just expectation effects.
3 recs: ModafinilXL, CosmicNootropic 4 recs: Liftmode 5 recs: Eufinil 6 recs: Science.bio 7 recs: BuyModa, LiftMode 48 recs: Nootropics Depot
26: The Polynesians have long used a tea made from kava to help relax, but so far nobody’s been able to turn it into a pill effectively - for some reason it only works in tea form, and the tea is annoying to prepare. Pretty-Chill on the Nootropics Depot subreddit claims to have solved this problem: kavalactones are only soluble when combined with some of the starches in kava roots, which happens in traditional tea preparation and not in the pill manufacturing process. Yes, this link is pretty close to shilling a product, but I trust this team a lot and think this is a potentially exciting development in the pharmacology of anxiety.
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MYASD of Nootropics Depot writes:
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The head of Nootropics Depot, MisterYouAreSoDumb, made a comment on the situation, which I reprint here in its entirety:
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