Shekhar Natarajan

Like, I think that's important.

But would that not come through more relationship and being with that person versus being recommended something?

Well, so, you know, I would bring us back to the, you know, science and art, right?

So, you know, I'm an old search guy.

Which is where the responsible use of building the technology is super important for the flourishing of the humanity.

Right?

And so the question is not whether, like, we should or not, but how are we training these damn systems in the first place?

those who are of a kind of active age having a lot less sex having a lot less interaction with alcohol and a lot of people are saying well you know psychedelics are the way we should be sober but as a function that allows people to tell truths to one another in a lower stakes environment if they're not massively drunk and to have that kind of

Like I remember when I used to fancy whoever it was in class, you'd slip notes to each other.

And the fear of rejection was like, oh my God, are they going to go on a date with me?

Or one time I went for a date with someone and

They waited for me for an hour and a half.

But there's something about that longing, that yearning, and if you remove all of that, then you're killing Eros.

We don't want to lose embodiment.

We don't want to lose deep embodiment, rich environments, and high consequences.

And excitement.

It puts you in the present moment and in a flow state.

What you were speaking to before about love fading over time, I think you were maybe speaking directly to the idea of habituation.

Or like people kind of starting to take each other for granted simply through repetition.

And I've thought about this a lot because I am a creature of novelty and at the same time I'm a romantic.