CerebraLab
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CerebraLab is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between June 15, 2021 and April 04, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “George at CerebraLab has a new review”; “George H (formerly of Cerebralab, now of Epistem.ink)“. It most often appears alongside George, 5-HT1A, 5-HT2A.
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- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: June 15, 2021
- Last seen: April 04, 2024
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- George (2 shared issues)
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- 5-HT1A (1 shared issues)
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- 5-HT2A (1 shared issues)
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- Aaron Peskin (1 shared issues)
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- active inference (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
George at CerebraLab has a new review of Nutt and Carhart-Harris's paper on serotonin receptors (I previously reviewed it here). Two points stood out that I had previously missed:
22: George H (formerly of Cerebralab, now of Epistem.ink) claims that Increasing IQ Is Trivial and the scientific consensus that it’s impossible is just scientists being too cowardly to try interesting things (see also his counter to Gwern’s “Algernon” argument here). He says that he was able to increase his IQ 7-9 points (after controlling properly for learning effects) and that the first two people to try to replicate his method got 10 and 11 point increases). He’s being a little coy about what exactly the method is, because he doesn’t want too many people trying it half-assed and messing it up, but says it involves:
Inline links: Increasing IQ Is Trivial, here