Conversation

Sasha Chapin
@sashachapin
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?
Quote Tweet
Sasha Chapin
@sashachapin
·
Oh cool, Scott did a blog about how the fuck LSD restored my sense of smell astralcodexten.substack.com/p/what-should-
24
13
244
QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
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
2
74
QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
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
2
58
Sasha Chapin
@sashachapin
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
9
1
54
Sasha Chapin
@sashachapin
like, if your prior is low that psychedelics can have striking and idiosyncratic effects on your nervous system, that's your problem dude, not mine
2
2
42
Sasha Chapin
@sashachapin
another dude mentioned he's doubtful because maybe i couldn't correctly notice large changes in olfaction, like the LSD was a smokescreen and like, i get it you live as if you don't have a body, but this is not my experience
3
2
58
Arbutus Tree
@aphercotropist
Ah but you see, the territory is necessarily inaccessible. There are only representations generated by the brain from sensory inputs. There is no probability 1. You can only ever look at ever more accurate maps
1
12
Show replies