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
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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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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
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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
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i think this is a rationalist failure mode i'm quite aware of, moreso now: Naive Skepticism
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This is why empiricism > rationalism
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“I don’t know how this could work therefore it can’t work”
“Okay bro watch this”
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There's A Reason They're Called The Rationalists And Not The Empiricists Eh
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brb starting my own version of LessWrong and calling it WhatIfWeActuallyLookedAtTheTerritory
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
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it's too bad "THE TERRITORY" isn't 10 letters or else you could get tattoos of it on your fists
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the LessWrong to MoreAction pipeline (aided by a dose of acid)
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I feel like we've taken this more seriously than (almost?) anyone else. In that context, while we're inventing vast theoretical edifices to explain it, having a few people remind us it's just one crazy anecdote seems healthy / not worth completely dismissing the movement over.
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Cerebral palsy doesn't just get better, though.
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Drinking beer. Example of #CerebralPalsy improvement ~1.5 years after post-#fasting change. #hemiplegia
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