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The more technology creeps into sports performance the less interested I become. There's a spectrum that goes from nutrition and fabric technology at one end to
by nsxwolf 10y ago
The more technology creeps into sports performance the less interested I become. There's a spectrum that goes from nutrition and fabric technology at one end to transhumanism at the other.
I don't really mind performance being increased by advances in nutrition or training methods. I start to get a little turned off by drag reducing suits that let you swim faster, because the apples to apples comparisons get murkier. Once we get into doping and prosthetic limbs that outperform natural ones you just lose me entirely. If it's a competition for cyborgs, then say so.
- verisimilidude 10y agoCyborg competition is going to be more or less entertaining depending upon the sport. For many events in the Olympics, I'd completely agree with you. Human variation adds a lot of drama. If every sprinter were to run on the same Footech XYZ-4 Hamstring, etc., it's hard to imagine there would be many differences between those sprinters. It'd be boring without other changes to the sport. On the other hand, doping and augmentation could allow entirely new types of sport. Diving from 500 meters. Sprinters with pit crews like race cars. American football players with their brains removed. I might be interested to watch some of that.
- raihansaputra 10y ago"American football players with their brains removed." So remote controlled human bodies crashing into each other?