Lex Fridman: preference

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…That was a great segue by the way. Oh, man. I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing, honestly with this interviewing thing. But yeah, meth and LSD… I did ayahuasca. I did shrooms a bunch of times. And this topic, I should say that there’s a lot of, on Twitter and in the tech community in general, people speaking negatively about ayahuasca and some positively. I think it’s such a roll of the dice. I had incredible experiences, but I don’t think I want to recommend it to anyone. It’s a risk, it’s a serious risk. It really is a roll of the dice that you could meet your demons and they could destroy you or you can meet your demons and let go of them. Or you could have experiences like I did, which is never… Apparently I don’t have demons. I’m pretty sure they’re somewhere in the basement, but I’ve never met them on drugs. I’m always really happy. I’m happy drunk. I’m super happy on ayahuasca, just full of love. I don’t understand, I don’t understand where the demons are, but that’s my biochemistry, whatever that is. And for some others, one trip could be amazing and the next one could just completely destroy you and wreck your life. So I don’t know what the recommendation from that is, maybe avoid it, but then all of us die and life… I tend to lean into adventure but drugs is… If you fuck with the biochemistry of your brain, you can really destroy yourself in a way that it’s going to torment you. So I would generally recommend that people avoid drugs altogether, probably, unless you’re a crazy motherfucker. Hunter S. Thompson. What an intro to this topic.…

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