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Emma Goldberg

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It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

Well, I think some tech CEOs have a lot of really kind of... egotistical or hierarchical ideas of how society should be organized.

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

Well, I think some tech CEOs have a lot of really kind of... egotistical or hierarchical ideas of how society should be organized.

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

There's a combination of beliefs that are centered on this sort of mystical experiences aligned with technocratic goals of optimizing, you know, your experience or your ability to do labor, whether it's through psychedelics or genetic modification or biohacking or neural link AI, or the reemergence of the eugenics movement. Like, uh, I have a quote from, um, Serge Faget, he started Mirror AI.

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

There's a combination of beliefs that are centered on this sort of mystical experiences aligned with technocratic goals of optimizing, you know, your experience or your ability to do labor, whether it's through psychedelics or genetic modification or biohacking or neural link AI, or the reemergence of the eugenics movement. Like, uh, I have a quote from, um, Serge Faget, he started Mirror AI.

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

There's a combination of beliefs that are centered on this sort of mystical experiences aligned with technocratic goals of optimizing, you know, your experience or your ability to do labor, whether it's through psychedelics or genetic modification or biohacking or neural link AI, or the reemergence of the eugenics movement. Like, uh, I have a quote from, um, Serge Faget, he started Mirror AI.

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

He had a quote saying that he was getting into biohacking as a means to, quote, help make us immortal post-human gods that cast off the limits of our biology and spread across the universe. Really kind of new age stuff. Sam Altman, you know, he recently talked about psychedelics as, quote, one of the most transformative things in his life.

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

He had a quote saying that he was getting into biohacking as a means to, quote, help make us immortal post-human gods that cast off the limits of our biology and spread across the universe. Really kind of new age stuff. Sam Altman, you know, he recently talked about psychedelics as, quote, one of the most transformative things in his life.

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

He had a quote saying that he was getting into biohacking as a means to, quote, help make us immortal post-human gods that cast off the limits of our biology and spread across the universe. Really kind of new age stuff. Sam Altman, you know, he recently talked about psychedelics as, quote, one of the most transformative things in his life.

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

Sam Altman also invested in a libertarian city-state project called Praxis Nation.

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

Sam Altman also invested in a libertarian city-state project called Praxis Nation.

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

Sam Altman also invested in a libertarian city-state project called Praxis Nation.

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

That line, heroic action, contemplation, is taken from the Italian fascist author, Julius Evola. Their slogan on their website is, reclaim the West. About as fascist as you can get. And so I think this rhetoric shares a lot of overlaps with the discourse around psychedelics in Silicon Valley as something that's providing this kind of vitalist, masculine, transcendent contemplation.

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

That line, heroic action, contemplation, is taken from the Italian fascist author, Julius Evola. Their slogan on their website is, reclaim the West. About as fascist as you can get. And so I think this rhetoric shares a lot of overlaps with the discourse around psychedelics in Silicon Valley as something that's providing this kind of vitalist, masculine, transcendent contemplation.

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

That line, heroic action, contemplation, is taken from the Italian fascist author, Julius Evola. Their slogan on their website is, reclaim the West. About as fascist as you can get. And so I think this rhetoric shares a lot of overlaps with the discourse around psychedelics in Silicon Valley as something that's providing this kind of vitalist, masculine, transcendent contemplation.

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

Yeah. For me, I think people have the agency to do whatever things they would like to and go about them as they do outside of a legalistic view. But I think, as we've mentioned, I'm worried that as these become more common and more commonplace, people are going to be engaging with them only in a very commercialized and consumable form.

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

Yeah. For me, I think people have the agency to do whatever things they would like to and go about them as they do outside of a legalistic view. But I think, as we've mentioned, I'm worried that as these become more common and more commonplace, people are going to be engaging with them only in a very commercialized and consumable form.

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

Yeah. For me, I think people have the agency to do whatever things they would like to and go about them as they do outside of a legalistic view. But I think, as we've mentioned, I'm worried that as these become more common and more commonplace, people are going to be engaging with them only in a very commercialized and consumable form.

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

You're going to see a lot of kind of integration with data harvesting apps. You have lots of startups that are promoting at-home psychedelic therapy with an app. you're going to see some startups keep all of that data and sell it to marketers.

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

You're going to see a lot of kind of integration with data harvesting apps. You have lots of startups that are promoting at-home psychedelic therapy with an app. you're going to see some startups keep all of that data and sell it to marketers.

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

You're going to see a lot of kind of integration with data harvesting apps. You have lots of startups that are promoting at-home psychedelic therapy with an app. you're going to see some startups keep all of that data and sell it to marketers.