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maia comments on "Drinking Alcohol May Significantly Enhance Problem Solving Skills" - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: maia 12 April 2012 06:22:58PM 17 points [-]

It sounds like alcohol improved their automated, instantaneous processing - or in other words, System 1 thinking. Based on what I know about alcohol, I'd guess it still slows down your System 2 thinking considerably. In fact, that could even be an explanation for the improvement in System 1 speed: their fact-checker is disabled, so they answer with their intuition right away.