Shekhar Natarajan
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Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
If you can't get through it, like, if you're just in a...
Okay.
Clearly hit something in my psyche.
Well, okay, Allen Ginsberg, the beat poet from the 60s, he used to be a big advocate for psychedelic expansion of consciousness, and he used to describe his favorite headspace.
Again, talk about the ideal psychological state.
as buoyant, floating attention, like a rubber duck in the bathtub of the universe.
Maybe you like that one better.
That's better.
Okay, so you're like a rubber duck.
You're just bopping along, feeling groovy.
You're in the bath.
It's warm.
It's nice, but it's the bathtub of the universe.
You're like beholding galaxies, you know?
So I've always wanted both of those things because I love expansion, but I also love to feel safe.
It's a big one for me, you know?
And so that made me think of that movie all the time.
And Kevin, what did you feel?
And it was interesting to see them deal with that.
But the question of any algorithm is what is it optimizing for?