What Scott Alexander thinks about psychedelics
Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex. Keeps a numbered public list of the things he has been convinced he got wrong, which is where most of the turns recorded here come from.
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2 dated positions, 2019, in their own words. Our reading of what Scott Alexander has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our reading · no longer heldPsychedelics work by strengthening the brain's top-down priors
No longer holdsA more recent paper by Carhart-Harris and Friston provides compelling evidence that psychedelics probably work by _weakening_ the brain's top-down priors, meaning I got this one maximally wrong.
SaidA more recent paper by Carhart-Harris and Friston provides compelling evidence that psychedelics probably work by weakening the brain's top-down priors, meaning I got this one maximally wrong.
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Their wordsI suggested that psychedelics might work by strengthening the brain's top-down priors.