<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">I would go for an enhanced Olympics if the enhancers were vetted by physicians. Usage to the point of amennorrhea is too much - not healthy for the women. Ditto for men etc. Perhaps that would keep the contestants healthier. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 7, 2024 at 5:28 AM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">"Olympics on steroids" takes a high-tech, F1-style angle on athletics<br>
By Loz Blain February 07, 2024<br>
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It seems the Enhanced Games are on like Donkey Kong, with<br>
multi-million dollar investments from Peter Thiel and other<br>
high-profile VCs. Performance-enhancing drugs are welcome – indeed,<br>
this could become an early preview of a transhuman Olympics.<br>
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You could argue the Tour de France beat them to it – or indeed the<br>
regular Olympics themselves; of the top six fastest men ever to run<br>
the 100-meter sprint, only Usain Bolt has never tested positive for<br>
banned substances.<br>
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And maybe we're being too precious about the sanctity of the human<br>
body, in an age where bionics, brain chips, AI, gene editing and all<br>
manner of transhumanist technologies are coming within reach. If this<br>
stuff can make us better, maybe we should let it, and maybe the<br>
Enhanced Games are a symbolic step in that direction.<br>
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BillK<br>
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