Comment by papichulo4 | Hacker News Reader

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Nobody is saying let's ditch the Olympics and everybody should take roids. Behind the scenes, so many athletes are already enhancing themselves during the off season in so many sports, this is an attempt to "legalize it."

I'd like to know where the line on enhanced will be drawn - will they allow for robots to compete?

Also, this sounds good:

> The Enhanced Games have been designed so they can be hosted at a Division One university campus, its website said, avoiding the need to build new stadiums and push cities into debt. It will also mean athletes can be paid fairly...

It's like a more sustainable, equitable Olympics that's happens to have a vice. But will people care enough to watch? The market will decide.

> Behind the scenes, so many athletes are already enhancing themselves during the off season in so many sports, this is an attempt to "legalize it."

The thing that troubles me is that enforcing a certain degree of plausible deniability also limits the harm that these athletes cause themselves with the drugs.

When you throw the plausible deniability away like this, you open the gates to reckless drug abuse for the sake of competition, which could be an order of magnitude more lethal than everybody doping in secret moderation.

I'd be a lot more comfortable with it in principle if they were allowing drug use, but enforcing sane limits and disqualifying athletes who were clearly being reckless and causing themselves serious harm.

I don't think we should legalize 15 year old girls being pressured to ruin their bodies with drugs so that they can win a gold medal for their country.

If it became popular it would remove many bad apples from the Olympic pool. Or it would just add a new level of obvious doping while the hidden doping methods would keep evolving, maybe even faster due to the public branch

Excellent summary except for the "nobody is"

Whats's next e-sports with cheats on?

> The market will decide.

I am pretty sure market would bring back bloodsports, but is that a good thing?

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