Dr. Christof (Christoph) Koch
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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But that's always, you know...
Does that scale in modern Silicon Valley speak?
Does that scale?
Can we do this for 8 billion of us?
So the emotional impact is much, much bigger.
And this is totally new in human history.
So we're going through this rapid period.
Some people call it the acceleranda, this rapid acceleration towards some distant point that we don't, that may not be that far away, that we don't yet realize.
I doubt it's a singularity of Kurzweil.
Yeah, so it's a serotonergic tryptamine, very similar to psilocybin or quite similar to DMT.
So chemically, they're all very similar, but each one, of course, binds to slightly different, you know, there are 14 different serotonin receptors, binds to different cells and different proportions.
So 5-MU is so unique about that.
You inhale it, although they're now trying to deliver something that you can inject into your nose, but traditionally you inhale it and literally within three breaths, you do.
And the third one, the visual field starts fracturing into a hexagonal.
And I thought to myself, holy shit, what I got myself into.
I wasn't.
And you think you're going to die.
You said, shit, this was a mistake.
I'm going to die.
And you die.