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Brain-computer interfaces, supercomputing, and traditional medicine all aim to improve human performance and health. The real question is: What do these approaches actually change—and where are their limits? 

My guest is Alex Kim. We explore the intersection of advanced technology and alternative approaches to human optimization:

• What brain-computer interfaces are designed to do
• How supercomputing is used to model and enhance cognition and health
• What Eastern medicine is targeting—and how it differs from technological approaches
• Where these systems align—and where they diverge

This isn't about understanding what each approach is actually solving, and what it isn't. When different systems aim at the same outcome, the differences in how they work become more important than the promises they make.