JulianMorrison comments on Plastination is maturing and needs funding, says Hanson - Less Wrong

70 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 June 2012 08:00PM

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Comment author: JulianMorrison 19 June 2012 10:50:06PM *  8 points [-]

Yeah, but my point being, you don't know all those feedbacks. There are probably scads of them. And realistically the only way to find out would be to boot up a great many nonhuman animals first, and watch them bug out in informative ways. Which is likely to be cruel work, and not fun at all.

Also "only alter your mood"? Well, only as much as being hypoglycemic, or hypoxic, or panicking for breath, or ravenous, or various other hormone or feedback linked things alter your mood, especially with them all firing at OHSHITGONNADIE levels all at once - ie, it would be instantly and horribly incapacitating.

Comment author: MixedNuts 26 June 2012 01:18:29PM 1 point [-]

It wouldn't be nice at all, but it wouldn't be death, and it would be fixable even with current psych meds.

Comment author: JulianMorrison 26 June 2012 08:25:21PM 0 points [-]

No, it would not. Those meds rebalance an unbalanced system, they don't rebuild a completely undercut system. And you are assuming that simulating the chemical effect of the meds would be easy - lest you forget, we've thrown away the chemicals, that's the problem.