Things like this make me wonder about how we even define drugs. Organizations like the FDA might not approve of people buying their way onto trials for pills t

Things like this make me wonder about how we even define drugs. Organizations like the FDA might not approve of people buying their way onto trials for pills that can induce a specific mental state in someone, but if one is in a research lab now working on something similar but with a device, there doesn't appear to be an FDA like organization (yet) that would shut PI's (or current corporations make and sell said devices commercially) down if some wealthy individual decides to fly up every couple of weeks so they can "play", despite the non-zero probability of inducing negative side effects from the states one is potentially trying to induce. Kind of reminds me of in the late 1940's where x-rays machines were used fit shoes… only nearly 2 decades later the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was formed, where its predecessor was more in the business of enabling such endeavors. It seems like people who have access to enough resources and are looking for ways to exchange resources for something they want will find a way if the perceived possibilities are in their field of awareness… no matter any ones understanding of such things. tangent: If we're facing the lag "problem" with purely human behaviors and their externalities, humans approaching the endeavor for AI and AI augmented humans evokes the imagery of pounding ones fists in sand.