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

[spike at rainier66.com]

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

>> ..., 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..

>...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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I agree Daniel.

Regarding drug-enhanced competitions, we had an ExI chatter who insisted that drugs could improve performance in chess.  I very steadfastly argued that they cannot, with the possible well-known exception being caffeine.

If there is one thing on this planet which Peter Thiel loves more than money, it is chess.  If I knew how to contact him, I would propose he put up a modest sum for prize money, then have a tournament of stoners vs squares.

I would cheerfully play for the squares.

I suppose to make it fair, the same players would need to switch teams, and if so, he can count me out.  But if anyone could find a way, some kind of objective measure, I would still bet on Team Square.

spike