If you have not, then hard downvote for stupendous arrogance.
The most “productive” thing to do is both use psychedelics AND read textbooks, which I assume Fink already does.
(Side note: parent is currently at the the top, and is inanely academic. I’m now further understanding the necessity of “post-rationalism” a la Will Newsome.)
Citations are needed for what you said. A description of significant experience with a variaty of psychedelics and an explanation of how that led you to think that marginal returns on “understanding the human mind” are so steep might be satisfactory.
The human mind is not close to being “solved” by any sane definition of “solved”. Systemetized research on the psychedelic experience has been repressed for decades, and current best efforts on doing so (see, e.g., psychonautwiki.org and DMT-nexus) haven’t gotten very far.
Not ignoring the virtue of things like psychonautics is an advantage that “post-rationalism” has on standard-fare LW rationalism.
If you have done LSD, please explain.
If you have not, then hard downvote for stupendous arrogance.
The most “productive” thing to do is both use psychedelics AND read textbooks, which I assume Fink already does.
(Side note: parent is currently at the the top, and is inanely academic. I’m now further understanding the necessity of “post-rationalism” a la Will Newsome.)
That shouldn’t matter at all in parsing the validity of my argument, but yes, I have..
Citations are needed for what you said. A description of significant experience with a variaty of psychedelics and an explanation of how that led you to think that marginal returns on “understanding the human mind” are so steep might be satisfactory.
The human mind is not close to being “solved” by any sane definition of “solved”. Systemetized research on the psychedelic experience has been repressed for decades, and current best efforts on doing so (see, e.g., psychonautwiki.org and DMT-nexus) haven’t gotten very far.
Not ignoring the virtue of things like psychonautics is an advantage that “post-rationalism” has on standard-fare LW rationalism.