Sam Altman says he has had "life-changing" psychedelic experiences that transformed him from an anxious, unhappy person into a very calm person who can work on hard and important things

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his lying habit is not transformed , but even worse .

ayahuasca->inter-dimensional communication->decides to make AGI

Psychedelics changed my life for the better.

If someone missed it: Sam Altman and Lex Fridman had an interesting exchange about ayahuasca while talking about AI.

Oh Samuel, what did you see?

Coulda just hit the gym

Funny how we in West associate wisdom/ enlightenment as having to be found after having travelled, usually somewhere far away - whereas those places: Tibet /Japan/ Thailand will have gurus and temples in every neighbourhood.

the guy has panic streaming out of every pore and quite desperation beaming out of his eyes at kilowatt intensity.

I think transformational experiences get flak because [whatever people become aware of] is *actually true* to a much greater extent than than it is *actionable* > and this scares other people, who only see happiness in group-approved achievement. they think a mind has been lost.