NancyLebovitz comments on The Strangest Thing An AI Could Tell You - Less Wrong

81 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 July 2009 02:27AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 July 2009 05:39:07AM 18 points [-]

Not that I know of offhand. I'm vastly curious as to whether I could beat it, of course - but wouldn't dare try to find out, even if there were a simulating drug that was supposedly strictly temporary, any more than I dare ride a motorcycle or go skydiving.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 07 April 2010 02:05:57AM 4 points [-]

I've heard an account of cortisone withdrawal from a generally rational person-- she said her hallucinations became more and more bizarre (iirc, a CIA center appeared in her hospital room), and she had no ability to check it for plausibility.

I wonder whether practicing lucid dreaming would give people more ability to remain reflective during non-dream hallucinations.