I don’t really know what psychedelics do in the brain, so I don’t have a good answer. I’d note that, if psychedelics increases your brain’s sensitivity wrt amplifying discrepancies, then this seems like a promising way to counterbalance biases in the negative direction (e.g. being too humble to think anything novel), even if it increases your false-positives.
I think psychedelics probably don’t work this way, but I’d like to try it anyway (if it were cheap) while thinking about specific topics I fear I might be tempted to fool myself about. I’d first spend some effort getting into the state where my brain wants to discover those discrepancies in the first place, and I’m extra-sceptical the drugs would work on their own without some mental preparation.
I don’t really know what psychedelics do in the brain, so I don’t have a good answer. I’d note that, if psychedelics increases your brain’s sensitivity wrt amplifying discrepancies, then this seems like a promising way to counterbalance biases in the negative direction (e.g. being too humble to think anything novel), even if it increases your false-positives.
I think psychedelics probably don’t work this way, but I’d like to try it anyway (if it were cheap) while thinking about specific topics I fear I might be tempted to fool myself about. I’d first spend some effort getting into the state where my brain wants to discover those discrepancies in the first place, and I’m extra-sceptical the drugs would work on their own without some mental preparation.