AI is moving fast — from running your business to replacing your therapist. Ben and Dilan break down Grok-4’s leap past GPT-4, new gene edits that might kill heart disease, and why Silicon Valley is obsessed with microdosing weight-loss drugs. This episode is a glimpse into the weird, unstoppable future founders need to see coming.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Welcome to Almost Got It
01:00 - Dylan’s trip to Turkey and meditation
03:00 - Loudspeakers, religion, and cultural noise
06:00 - Hernias, Squatty Potty, and pooping wrong
08:00 - Psychological side of digestion
10:00 - How smartphones ruined our bathroom habits
12:00 - Apple Health… for pooping?
14:00 - Humanity moving towards “God Mode”
16:00 - Grok-4’s performance vs GPT-4
18:00 - AI benchmarks and vending machine tests
20:00 - Real-world use cases of Grok-4
22:00 - Simulating 32 AI agents at once
24:00 - Emotional AI avatars & the future of relationships
26:00 - AI wingmen and utopian vs dystopian futures
28:00 - AI helping couples resolve conflicts
30:00 - Recording life with Limitless pendant
32:00 - Privacy concerns, memory, and brain atrophy
35:00 - How the iPhone rewired our brains
37:00 - AI’s impact on learning and retention
39:00 - Verve Therapeutics: A vaccine for heart disease?
41:00 - The future of LDL treatments
43:00 - Eli Lilly’s $1.3B acquisition
45:00 - Longevity breakthroughs reshaping health
47:00 - Breast cancer vaccine progress
49:00 - Humanity entering "God Mode" for health
51:00 - GLP-1 drugs explained (Ozempic, etc.)
53:00 - The rise of Retatrutide
55:00 - Why biohackers love it
57:00 - How to get experimental peptides
59:00 - Wrapping up: The future isn’t coming — it’s here
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