No greater sign that Eliezer isn’t leading a cult than that my first reaction to this was “pfft, good luck”, even when I misread it as “we should shame individuals for doing these things Elizabeth finds valuable” and not the more reasonable “leaders pushing this are suspect”
”People shouldn’t do psychedelics” is highly debatable and has to argue against a lot of research demonstrating their efficacy for improving mental wellness and treating psychiatric disorders.
”Leaders & subgroups shouldn’t push psychedelics on their followers” seems straightforwardly correct.
I haven’t taken any psychedelics myself. I have the impression that best practice with LSD is not to take it alone but to have someone skillful as a trip sitter. I imagine having a fellow rationalist as a trip sitter is much better then having some one agey person with sketchy epistemics.
No greater sign that Eliezer isn’t leading a cult than that my first reaction to this was “pfft, good luck”, even when I misread it as “we should shame individuals for doing these things Elizabeth finds valuable” and not the more reasonable “leaders pushing this are suspect”
Big +1.
Really important to disambiguate the two:
”People shouldn’t do psychedelics” is highly debatable and has to argue against a lot of research demonstrating their efficacy for improving mental wellness and treating psychiatric disorders.
”Leaders & subgroups shouldn’t push psychedelics on their followers” seems straightforwardly correct.
I haven’t taken any psychedelics myself. I have the impression that best practice with LSD is not to take it alone but to have someone skillful as a trip sitter. I imagine having a fellow rationalist as a trip sitter is much better then having some one agey person with sketchy epistemics.