but because they're not called such and promoted to the billions of not-terribly-advanced primates swarming the planet, they don't generate the kind of buzz, rewards, or mass motivation any college or pro team of mostly-not-excellent thinkers who might be excellent at kicking or hitting a ball can
Have you noticed there used to be nothing else of significance in the mass-appeal sports world other than the big 3 of football, baseball, and b-ball in the US, and football/soccer (and maybe cricket), golf and tennis to a far lesser extent as the main modes of maintaining blind hysteria in the masses, but now there is opportunity to package and promote nearly any team sport, and a lot of individual activites?
Of course, AIs are robbing a lot of potential interest for games humans used to be the only participants, but when robots do the same thing to physical sports, we might come up with a solution to both out of necessity.
Fair point.
There should be a thinking Olympics
There are, kind of, in several forms-
but because they're not called such and promoted to the billions of not-terribly-advanced primates swarming the planet, they don't generate the kind of buzz, rewards, or mass motivation any college or pro team of mostly-not-excellent thinkers who might be excellent at kicking or hitting a ball can
Have you noticed there used to be nothing else of significance in the mass-appeal sports world other than the big 3 of football, baseball, and b-ball in the US, and football/soccer (and maybe cricket), golf and tennis to a far lesser extent as the main modes of maintaining blind hysteria in the masses, but now there is opportunity to package and promote nearly any team sport, and a lot of individual activites?
Of course, AIs are robbing a lot of potential interest for games humans used to be the only participants, but when robots do the same thing to physical sports, we might come up with a solution to both out of necessity.