Chris Giamali

You know, if anything, it felt just like the most naked expression of capitalism possible.

Like this whole thing was taking place in the shadow of Trump Tower with the sphere visible in the background, which is like this, you know, emblem of commerce and an eye of Sauron sort of like thing.

And BTS had played the night before in Vegas.

And so, you know, the city was overrun with people spending like a million dollars on concert tickets.

So it didn't really feel political in a sense, but it did feel like, oh, these are people who care about money who are running this thing.

And but, you know, that sort of like undergirded the whole event.

You know, as I understand it, they have quite a bit of runway.

And to be fair, I thought that by them paying all their athletes a living wage and paying for all their housing and their health care, this was sort of an unsustainable endeavor.

But then they came out like this week and were like, next time we throw the enhanced games, we're offering a $10 million prize if anyone could beat Usain Bolt's record in one of the sprint races, which I think is like designed to lure him out.

And

I'm kind of curious to see if like the prospect of like you know a really great athlete being able to win a couple hundred thousand dollars like for basically beating a bunch of scrubs if that gets anyone like who's actually exciting to join the fold so you know we'll see what happens

Yeah, you know, the founder, Aaron D'Souza, who's the dude who helped Peter Thiel take down Gawker, his whole thing was, you know, we're ushering a new era of humankind.

It's either the AI era or the enhanced era.

And I hope we go the enhanced route is sort of his argument for that, which I didn't totally buy, you know what I mean?

like it's he's such a good carnival barker in some ways in terms of like you know drumming up controversy for this thing um so you know yeah uh i i haven't actually read the pope's manifesto yet but it's on my it's in one of my tabs open uh to get through when i when i get a little bit of time the pope is on enough peptides he came out of the gate hot too i'm excited to read it