[ExI] "Olympics on steroids" takes a high-tech, F1-style angle on athletics

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On Wed, 7 Feb 2024, BillK via extropy-chat wrote:

> "Olympics on steroids" takes a high-tech, F1-style angle on athletics
> By Loz Blain   February 07, 2024
>
> <https://newatlas.com/sports/enhanced-games-olympics-steroids/>
> Quotes:
> It seems the Enhanced Games are on like Donkey Kong, with
> multi-million dollar investments from Peter Thiel and other
> high-profile VCs. Performance-enhancing drugs are welcome – indeed,
> this could become an early preview of a transhuman Olympics.

Finally! I've been arguing in favour of this and waiting for this for
decades! Happy that Thiel finally caught up with me, _and_ has the
billions to make it happen! ;)

> And maybe we're being too precious about the sanctity of the human
> body, in an age where bionics, brain chips, AI, gene editing and all
> manner of transhumanist technologies are coming within reach. If this
> stuff can make us better, maybe we should let it, and maybe the
> Enhanced Games are a symbolic step in that direction.

It's your body and as long as you harm no one else, and you pay your own
medical bill, I say "go for it!".

Best regards, 
Daniel


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