{"id":423,"date":"2024-02-26T17:52:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T17:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/?p=423"},"modified":"2024-02-26T17:59:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T17:59:07","slug":"robot-and-performance-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/2024\/02\/26\/robot-and-performance-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot and Performance Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So there was yet another recent article in the Guardian about how technology has an effect on social practices. Currently, performance drugs are banned in sport and are considered cheating. However, a sort of techno-transhumanist wants to innovate and see how far we can push the body through intervention:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2024\/feb\/24\/grotesque-enhanced-games-removes-brain-barrier-in-quest-to-get-running\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2024\/feb\/24\/grotesque-enhanced-games-removes-brain-barrier-in-quest-to-get-running\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Grotesque Enhanced Games removes brain barrier in quest to get running | Barney Ronay<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea is, rather than banning performance technology, we ought to have a free for all and see how fast, strong etc, humans can get&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, why do we think it is cheating?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well sporting performance is an excellence and we want to celebrate natural luck in human beings (like beauty, intelligence etc.) Taking drugs is cheating&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, advanced countries have massively unfair training programmes. Surely this is unfair as well? And children with better diets will excel at sports when young&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, there is a difference between achievement and labour and short cuts &#8212; we tend to think if you take drugs that make you run more quickly you have not &#8220;earned&#8221; the reward, a bit like doing an examination and just searching the answers off the internet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you think? Is it a matter of justice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So there was yet another recent article in the Guardian about how technology has an effect on social practices. Currently, performance drugs are banned in sport and are considered cheating. However, a sort of techno-transhumanist wants to innovate and see how far we can push the body through intervention:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4745,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4745"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}