Disclaimer: The effects of psilocybin in magic mushrooms are not particularly well researched and while I had good experiences with it, I cannot specifically recommend it due to possible risks. Please do your own research.

Epistemic Status: This post is more about personal experience, and things that seem true to me, but since this post is about taking magic mushrooms, I hope you will take what is said here with a grain of salt.

In this post, I will provide a qualitative discussion of my experiences while ingesting psilocybin magic mushrooms, and how this has updated me in the direction of shorter timelines being more valid than I had previously thought. In particular, I incorporate with low certainty the differences in my subjective experiences and abilities during the tripping into my model of how AGI occurs.

Differences in Personal Experience

(Not really related to the timelines, but it might give you some context.)

While tripping, my outward behavior was essentially the same at every point. It was difficult for those with me to notice that I was tripping because of the words I said and the actions I took, except for at one point where I had a particularly strong tendency to laugh at things and giggle very much. However, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly what was different, because while my mental state felt completely different, "the conscious part of my mind" was almost identical. (One interesting consequence is that this shows how few bits of information are output through our actions).

When I looked at things, I could feel that they looked different, but when I looked specifically at what was different, there was no specific difference. My field of vision felt more narrow and focused on the center of my field of vision, but I could still see things on the periphery of my field of vision. There was a bit of ghosting and blooming, and it was more like watching a high definition movie or game than reality. Reading text was possible, but much more difficult.

In addition, my sense of time was also significantly impaired, making it difficult to keep track of time. When I moved from room to room, it quickly felt like an eternity since I had been at the previous place. Sitting in a new place, a very short time can feel like a long time. Still, if I searched my memory for the sequence of events leading up to a particular moment, I could infer that not m...

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