In this episode, we discuss the Enhanced Games in Las Vegas, where athletes were allowed to use performance-enhancing drugs under medical supervision, including the event format, prizes, and rules. We also highlight a new world record swim in the men’s 50-meter freestyle, other event winners, and the mixed results for enhanced versus natural athletes. Finally, we look at the event’s business side and its connection to biotech, AI, and future enhancement and medicine. ------ 🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️ NEWSLETTER: https://limitlessft.substack.com/ FOLLOW ON X: https://x.com/LimitlessFT SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQ APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890 RSS FEED: https://limitlessft.substack.com/ ------ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Enhanced Games Unveiled 2:58 Can Drugs Break Records? 5:34 Rules, Stacks, Side Effects 7:59 Ethics Of Enhancement 9:47 Natural Winners 14:12 The Business 17:35 Biotech Acceleration 21:31 What It Means For Sports ------ RESOURCES Josh: https://x.com/JoshKale Ejaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213 ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠

Encouraging Athletes to Take Steroids: Bryan Johnson's Enhanced Games

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- **Josh** (Limitless)
- **Ejaz** (Limitless)

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So we have the regular Olympics, on this show we've covered the Robot Olympics, and now we have the Enhanced Olympics, an Olympic competition that just happened last weekend that offered $7 million in prizes to the top athletes in the world. But these are not normal athletes. Because the difference with the Enhanced Olympics, the Enhanced Competition, is that you're allowed to take whatever performing enhancing drugs that you want. In fact, on screen you can see the before and after of what an Olympic swimmer looks like prior to the Enhanced Olympics. And currently afterwards, he looks like a monster.

This is a man that goes by the name The Missile. And on this episode, we're going to cover basically everything that went down at this new futuristic, pseudo-dystopian Olympic event. We are fully kitted out in our athletic gear today. We are ready to talk all things superhuman. Is the ceiling actually higher because people dope? Or is there some unexpected outcomes that we're going to cover? I think the latter might be a little true, Ejaz. I know both of us were tuned into this weekend. It's a really bizarre thing, but I think a really cool learning experience to see the impact that drugs have on superpowers.

Yeah, my social media timeline looked very different over the weekend. And I couldn't figure out why. This guy was plastered everywhere. His name is James The Missile Magnuson. And he's an Australian swimmer. He never actually won any kind of a significant medal at the Olympics, at least. And he came back out of retirement to participate in these games. So what are these games? Over this weekend, a bunch of billionaires got together, including Peter Thiel and Balaji.

And they said, okay, let's try and recreate the Olympics, but have no restrictions on doping. So typically at the Olympics, we have something called the Anti-Doping Agency. They have a set of rules of all performance enhancing drugs and substances that you can't use to perform at the highest level. So it's just human, no enhancement at all.

They took that and completely flipped the script, allowing pretty much anyone and everyone to enhance themselves. And the idea was, how far can we push the human body? What records can be beaten when we use these different types of substances?

So it took place in Vegas. There were around 36 events in total, and a huge cash prize, $7 million, as you mentioned earlier on. Now the breakdown of this is pretty simple. If you break a world record, being on enhanced performance drugs, or if you just break a record in general, you win $1 million. If you win your own embed category, you win $250k. So it really stacks up. And I think this is like the largest payout of any sporting event in recent history.

So the way this played out was it took place in Vegas over the course of four days, including the weekend. And ...

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