Dr. Dacher Keltner
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 29 Apr
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My sense, and I've consulted for really sophisticated people.
technological entrepreneurs from Pinterest on, like, is there gateways to sources of awe?
But they're not the thing.
For the reasons that you talk about, it kind of, it numbs you, it orients your attention to a really small thing.
Yeah.
So I'm an anti-technologist when it comes to awe, for the most part.
I worry about microdosing.
And I think in 10 years...
Anytime that you let a lot of people take drugs, marijuana, alcohol, heroin, and this is empirically documented, you get trouble, because it's just not thoughtful.
They're doing it for the wrong reasons.
And the data on microdosing, it's mixed right now.
It's like it can help you with depression, but it makes you ruminate more and more anxious and makes you more isolated.
So I worry about that.
But what I'm really excited about with respect to psychedelics is it's really proving to be good for hard problems of suffering, veterans and trauma.
OCD.
There's work coming out.
Drug addiction.
It helps with nicotine addiction.
And then people who get terminal diagnoses.
You're 40 years old and the doctor tells you, man, you know, you've got some weird stomach cancer.
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