[ExI] "Is it time for a transhumanist Olympics?"

[spike]

>... On Behalf Of Rafal Smigrodzki

>...My intuition is that it could, as long as the enhancement part was
narrated as a struggle, similar to training. In this story, the sportsman,
one of us, through perseverance and skill, with the help of trainers,
surgeons, pharmacists and genetic engineers, reaches new heights of power,
and steamrolls the opposition - maybe it could sell.
But then, my intuition in these human affiliative matters is rather tenuous,
so YMMV.

Rafal
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Ja.  We pay these top athletes all this money, then we throw away the real
contribution they could make to humanity by disallowing their chemical
enhancements, which results in their recipes being covered up and lost
forever.  We could be learning so much.

Professional sports stars are easy to track well into their old age, since
those records are kept faithfully.  I met one: Ted Williams, before he was
Max's client.  We have an opportunity here.  If we let all pro athletes use
anything they want, so long as they promise to faithfully record it and
reveal everything at the end of their sports careers, we could follow them
until they perish, note long term consequences of all these steroids and
performance enhancers, figure out which ones work and which ones do not,
which ones cause damage later and which ones are safe.  Instead we throw
away all that potentially life-saving data.  Oy.

spike