Huh. The winning response, one of the six early responses, also engages explicitly with the arguments in the main post in its section 1.2 and section 2. This one discussed things mentioned in the post without explicitly referring to the post. This one summarises the long-term-focused arguments in the post and then argues against them.
I worry I’m missing something here. Dismissing these responses as ‘cached arguments’ seemed stretched already, but the factual claim made to back that decision up, that ‘None of these engaged with the pro-psychedelic arguments I made in the main post’, seems straightforwardly incorrect.
Thanks, I think I overstated this in the OP (added a disclaimer noting this). I still think there’s a thing here but probably not to the degree I was holding.
In particular it felt strange that there wasn’t much engagement with the trauma argument or the moral uncertainty / moral hedging argument (“psychedelics are plausibly promising under both longtermist & short-termist views, so the case for psychedelics is more robust overall.”)
There was also basically no engagement with the studies I pointed to.
All of this felt strange (and still feels strange), though I now think I was too strong in the OP.
Huh. The winning response, one of the six early responses, also engages explicitly with the arguments in the main post in its section 1.2 and section 2. This one discussed things mentioned in the post without explicitly referring to the post. This one summarises the long-term-focused arguments in the post and then argues against them.
I worry I’m missing something here. Dismissing these responses as ‘cached arguments’ seemed stretched already, but the factual claim made to back that decision up, that ‘None of these engaged with the pro-psychedelic arguments I made in the main post’, seems straightforwardly incorrect.
Thanks, I think I overstated this in the OP (added a disclaimer noting this). I still think there’s a thing here but probably not to the degree I was holding.
In particular it felt strange that there wasn’t much engagement with the trauma argument or the moral uncertainty / moral hedging argument (“psychedelics are plausibly promising under both longtermist & short-termist views, so the case for psychedelics is more robust overall.”)
There was also basically no engagement with the studies I pointed to.
All of this felt strange (and still feels strange), though I now think I was too strong in the OP.