NancyLebovitz comments on In which I fantasize about drugs - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 12 October 2010 06:41:59PM 7 points [-]

6) A drug which puts you in the state of asking "does what I'm doing make sense?", doing an honest search for an answer., and then putting the answer into effect.

Admittedly, the drug that gives you a pony would be easier, but I think that reflectiveness and executive function have physical bases.

Comment author: gensym 13 October 2010 03:51:45AM *  1 point [-]

I find that marijuana makes me MUCH more internally honest by suppressing flinch responses. YMMV. (Unsurprisingly, it doesn't help with putting things into effect, but the insight remains, as does the feeling of what it's like to be / alief that I can survive being honest.)