I had one breakthrough DMT experience where I saw 'the machine elves' (I just saw what I describe as fast-moving fractals that I 'felt' were beckoning to me); but, we have matching experiences w/the other primary psychedelics: I only had relatively minor on-top visual distortions with even the largest doses of LSD (1500+ mcg) or mushrooms.

That said, everyone is different. I know that some of my friends absolutely lost their fucking minds on a few tabs of LSD and, purportedly, experienced wild hallucinations that I have to trust were real to them but haven't ever experienced myself.

Brute force bit banging is not intelligence.

I'm willing to make an exception for you.

LLMs are just big inefficient search engines. They are not intelligent. They just regurgitate random stuff they found on the Internet and format it nicely.
The human brain (or that of any animal, for that matter) is incredibly efficient, using less than 100 Watts and is a lot more capable than any LLM. The brain is actually intelligent.
So yes, LLMs are a dead end.

Cops get point for arresting people. No problem if it's the wrong person.
Flock cameras give them lots of "suspects" to arrest. It's a win for the cops.