MixedNuts comments on An inducible group-"meditation" for use in rationality dojos - Less Wrong
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Sounds like a decent hypothesis, go try it. Want a five-dollar grant or something?
Haha. I've already tried it with a couple of non-xRationalists with great success (read the life plan above); the problem is that a) I spent most of my brainstorming time explaining to them how and why they were making cognitive biases, and b) I don't know any rationalists in real life. I'm currently converting my older brother and his girlfriend.
We'll also need to do a double-blind control, with the brainstormers smoking something that seems like Cannabis but isn't psychoactive. Is there something like that? Maybe we could use ABV. A second control could also be useful, where the brainstormers don't smoke anything.
And, of course, we'll want as much data as possible. That means multiple groups conducting the experiment and reporting their findings. Like you said, it's inexpensive, so it shouldn't be too hard to get the experiment rolling so long as enough people are interested.
EDIT: The following is sort of irrelevant now, since people have begun giving me constructive criticism. I'm keeping it for posterity's sake.