I don’t think the average nootropics user would appear to have a goal of getting a legal high in a television broadcast.
It’s more interesting for a journalist to tell a story about a computer programmer who takes LSD to help him with a difficult programming problem on which he worked for months without a satisfying answer than to tell a story about the computer programmer wanting to get high with LSD.
The story about how nerds in Silicon Valley do everything to enchance their performance is more interesting than the story about a random person taking drugs.
More generally EA is also full of weird causes as Scott Alexander describes very well in his blog post about EA Global.
I don’t think the average nootropics user would appear to have a goal of getting a legal high in a television broadcast.
It’s more interesting for a journalist to tell a story about a computer programmer who takes LSD to help him with a difficult programming problem on which he worked for months without a satisfying answer than to tell a story about the computer programmer wanting to get high with LSD.
The story about how nerds in Silicon Valley do everything to enchance their performance is more interesting than the story about a random person taking drugs.
More generally EA is also full of weird causes as Scott Alexander describes very well in his blog post about EA Global.