johnny_abacus comments on Is it rational to take psilocybin? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: johnny_abacus 15 March 2009 08:16:15AM 1 point [-]

There is a difference between rationality (optimal decision making based on the known facts and a set of value-weightings of possible futures) and the value-weightings themselves. It strikes me that eating the peach would quite probably alter how much you would value particular possible worlds, but I find it much more difficult to believe that it would alter your ability to deal with complexity (predict the future).