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The Times Tech Podcast

Enhanced Games’ Aron D’Souza: “The Olympics are broken”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Interviews, News, Silicon Valley, Business News, Tech, Artificial Intelligence, Business Analysis, Ai, Unknown, Technology

4.9654 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Would you watch an Olympics where everyone was doping? The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Aron D’Souza, co-founder and president of the Enhanced Games, to talk about launching a new competition where everyone is pharmacologically enhanced (6:00), the events (10:00), why he started it (14:50), meeting Peter Thiel (18:20), leading the Gawker case (19:30), the response from the Olympics (23:00), how it could go wrong (26:00), making sure noone dies (28:10), adding robotics and cybernetics (32:20), the funders (35:00), lining up media rights (39:00), the most recent doping scandal (41:00), and the coming legal fight (41:45).

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0:00.0

Yo! Technology. What is it all about?

0:04.5

The Olympics refused to move throughout history.

0:07.6

But then that's fine. They're a guardian of Corinthian values and of ancient Greece and a 3,000-year-old ethos.

0:14.1

Let them do that. But let us be the guardians of the future.

0:17.5

Let's push humanity to a whole new level.

0:20.1

Because what I just don't want to see is a 20-year-old

0:23.2

breaking a world record, but wouldn't it be amazing if someone who's 40, 50, or even 60 years old

0:28.1

broke the 100-meter world record?

0:50.0

Yeah. Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech.

0:54.5

I'm your host, Danny Fordson, I hope all is stupendous.

0:58.9

And this week, we have a really fun one, a really interesting one.

1:06.3

We're talking about steroids, pharmacological, performance enhancement, superhumans. You know, so we have the Olympics coming up in Paris,

1:10.5

and there's this whole apparatus obviously set up to

1:13.3

ensure that people aren't cheating, that they're not using some type of substance to improve

1:18.8

their performance. But what if instead they were like, hey, everyone, do steroids. Use blood boosters.

1:28.2

Whatever.

1:28.9

Go crazy.

1:31.0

Everyone can do basically whatever they want.

1:33.8

And we'll see who, with all of those chemical enhancements, comes out on top.

1:39.3

That is effectively the idea of Aaron DeSuzza this week's guest.

1:44.0

He is the co-founder and president of the enhanced games, which is a new type of kind

1:50.4

of Olympic style competition, which, as I just described, a bunch of top athletes

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