strychnine

Strychnine will do that:( Edit to add: i'm just talking about the rash of strychnine poisonings related to LSD usage in the early 2000s.

If somebody needs step by step instructions from an LLM to synthesize strychnine, they don't have the practical laboratory skills to synthesize strychnine [1].

There is no avenue in synthesis or purification in which LSD and strychnine would come into contact.

There's no increased real world risk of strychnine poisonings whether or not an LLM refuses to answer questions like that.

Either way, the explanation that this comes from strychnine is and has always been bunk.

My neighbor keeps an old tuna can filled with gopher poison (strychnine laced grains) strapped to the inside of his car.

This isn't strychnine, and it's unlikely to be dangerous as small amounts of impurity.

And if it's considered to be non-synthetic, the only restriction is strychnine.

Better on the whole than the strychnine they used to give distance runners, I suppose.

That comment doesn't seem well informed given the casual way that it references the strychnine myth, nevertheless it's true that there is uncertainty about the dose.

The amount of strychnine necessary to have any effects on humans is too close to the lower end of lethality to be a useful cutting agent.

Are you poisoning your rats with strychnine and sodium cyanide?

The muscles in your face tense in a way that it gives you whats called a "Strychnine Smile".

You're welcome to show me (I'm from Missouri) where anyone has seriously suggested strychnine or other "official" poisons are foods.

I realise “the dose maketh the poison” but it wasn’t exactly strychnine or cyanide.

That sounds like "Cocaine seems innocuous to me—it's a party drug, like strychnine." It's hard to imagine a historical myth about personal computing more harmful than the myth that it was invented by a man who spent his life trying to take the power of personal computing away from the people!

Strychnine side note: It kills you by making all your muscles tense so strongly that you can't breath any more.

Strychnine can be a poison or it can be a tonic.