cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11485138
Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal, has joined a multi-million dollar investment in the controversial Enhanced Games, a proposed Olympics-style mega-event without drug testing.
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The idea is the brainchild of Dr Aron D’Souza, the Australian lawyer who helped mastermind Thiel’s proxy war against news media organisation Gawker, which led to Gawker’s bankruptcy in 2016.
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But in a recent interview with The Independent, D’Souza was defiant, and outlined how he hoped the Enhanced Games would not only shake up the world of sport, but would provide a public platform for life-extending science to thrive.
“This is the route towards eternal life,” D’Souza said. “It’s how we bring about performance-medicine technologies, that then create a feedback cycle of good technologies, selling to the world, more revenue, more R&D, to develop better and better technologies.
“And what is performance medicine about? It’s not about steroids and getting jacked muscles. It’s about being a better, stronger, faster, younger athlete for longer. And who doesn’t want to be younger for longer?”
Sure, go for it, whatever.
Nothing achieved will be as impressive as pure un-enhanced human performance (finding/setting the natural human limit); for record purposes, everything should be Olympic style based, but if you want to put on roid rage Olympiad, go for it, it’s a nice waste of money.
Definitely keep a separate set of records, and permanently disqualify any participants from regular Olympic participation. This is a good way to build a list of people that shouldn’t be allowed in the Olympics.