A trip to India isn’t optimized for messing with your mind, it isn’t expected to impose significantly more change on your cognition than commuting to work and watching a new movie. Better than self-reported values, we have status quo as the guiding principle: if you don’t know how to hack a system, leave it alone until you do. Don’t rely on the temperature of processor to debug the new superb modification you invented for your program.
If I visited India, I would expect it to result in significantly greater changes to my cognition than commuting to work or watching a new movie.
People take coffee to stimulate themselves, and alcohol for social lubrication. Is that “hacking” too? We know a lot about the effects of many drugs. For many people, the knowledge that we already have is enough for them to decide.
Except, of course, if we do not like the status quo, or believe a modification can give a greater expected value to our utility, all risks accounted for.
Does psilocybin get classified as a “random modification of your mind” any more than a trip to India does? Surely both could be dangerous?
Self-reported values are all we we have, really—if you want better evidence, you might have to wait for quite a while.
A trip to India isn’t optimized for messing with your mind, it isn’t expected to impose significantly more change on your cognition than commuting to work and watching a new movie. Better than self-reported values, we have status quo as the guiding principle: if you don’t know how to hack a system, leave it alone until you do. Don’t rely on the temperature of processor to debug the new superb modification you invented for your program.
If I visited India, I would expect it to result in significantly greater changes to my cognition than commuting to work or watching a new movie.
People take coffee to stimulate themselves, and alcohol for social lubrication. Is that “hacking” too? We know a lot about the effects of many drugs. For many people, the knowledge that we already have is enough for them to decide.
Except, of course, if we do not like the status quo, or believe a modification can give a greater expected value to our utility, all risks accounted for.