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.
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.