April 3, 2025

AI Schools, Cancer Cures, & The Death of Language Barriers

AI Schools, Cancer Cures, & The Death of Language Barriers

What happens when you find out you have cancer at 20... and then live for over a decade believing it never went away?

This week’s episode is a raw, unfiltered dive into the chaos and beauty of life in the age of AGI.Follow Dilan: https://x.com/dilanFollow Ben: https://x.com/btaubster

Listen to our podcast on your favorite podcast app: www.almostgotitpod.com00:00 – Intro02:00 – Are AI Schools Making Kids Smarter or Dumber?05:45 – The Yelp of the Future: AI Chooses Your Lunch08:30 – Max Ventilla’s $200M Failure and Why It Mattered12:00 – 2 Hours a Day, Top 1% Students? WTF Is Alpha School?17:00 – The Hidden Truth Behind Our Education System22:30 – Real-Time AI Translation Will Kill This $76B Industry28:10 – The Nanny, the Meta Glasses, and a Global Hiring Shift33:40 – Will AI Spark a New Human Renaissance or Mass Unemployment?37:10 – UBI, Identity, and the Collapse of the American Dream42:00 – Cancer, a Misdiagnosis, and the Fear That Drove Me47:30 – Six Rounds of Chemo and the Fear of Dying at 2052:40 – 12 Years Later: “You Never Had Cancer”56:20 – What That Lie Stole From Me - and What It Gave Me1:01:00 – Will Curing Cancer Break or Free Us?1:05:30 – Is Suffering Necessary for Meaning?1:09:00 – Pain, Purpose, and the Next Human Leap