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I am now experiencing what it's like to have a bunch of rationalist commentariat say with confidence that my experience isn't real and say they're not interested until they see randomized controlled trials It's hilarious Like, aren't you... curious?

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Sasha Chapin

@sashachapin

· Aug 3, 2021

Oh cool, Scott did a blog about how the fuck LSD restored my sense of smell astralcodexten.substack.com/p/what-should-

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Aug 4, 2021

it's a bit tricky. from their pov you're a rando who was selected for having an extremely unusual and relevant story and most of those stories really do turn out to be exaggerations or lies etc. from my pov you're a friend. i genuinely have much stronger evidence than they do

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and it's not just b/c i know you and have a sense of your character and am sympathetic to the possibility that psychedelics can do this sort of thing, it's also because from my pov you weren't cherry-picked at all and from theirs you were heavily heavily cherry-picked

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funnily enough this dynamic was first explained to me in a LW post somewhere, possibly even in the sequences and written by long yud himself

Sasha Chapin

@sashachapin

Aug 4, 2021

i get it, but their confidence about priors that lead them to be skeptical is what's funny to me for example, scott said it wasn't neurogenesis because neurogenesis doesn't occur in adult humans -- he's super wrong, specifically it does in olfaction

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wait, how is the amount of cherry-picking different? at least in a way that ~rationally should affect our credence