Re: I doubt a psychedelic experience can help me optimize my current utility function better than my sober self. How can I be more rational from a drug?
Psychedelic drugs can provide people with a different perspective on your own mind. They thus provide you with information about the operation of your own mind—how its perceptual filters work, that kind of thing—which is otherwise inaccessible to consciousness.
Some find that information valuable, much as they find foreign holidays valuable in providing a new perspective.
Re: I doubt a psychedelic experience can help me optimize my current utility function better than my sober self. How can I be more rational from a drug?
Psychedelic drugs can provide people with a different perspective on your own mind. They thus provide you with information about the operation of your own mind—how its perceptual filters work, that kind of thing—which is otherwise inaccessible to consciousness.
Some find that information valuable, much as they find foreign holidays valuable in providing a new perspective.