okay let’s vote
who’s banning the flash
nein
Nahi.
Yes-ish
Nope
you all just ruined my job as a football coach for 6 year olds. i hope you’re happy.
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ash ask
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potentially, if the robots are sufficiently worse at the job than the humans are? (like, it would suck if all fiction, this year, were spontaneously replaced with ChatGPT output, because ChatGPT is kind of mid* at writing fiction (compared to competent professional writers, not compared to The Median Human). relatedly, it is very unlikely that all fiction this year will spontaneously be replaced with ChatGPT output)
(obviously there’s a tradeoff where a slightly-worse robot might in some cases still be preferable to a human, like if I’m trying to read something on Italian Wikipedia I’m going to have a robot translate it for free rather than paying a human, but also I was never going to hire a human regardless so the choice is really “worse-than-human robot” or “nothing”)
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i think the thing is that some of these “really good” things are borne from nurture and others are borne from nature
and sports generally tries to put as much focus on nurture as possible (obviously this is impossible to do well, but its why there are categories by things like weight, sex, and age - a 22-year-old is liable to have a crazy advantage in a high school sport, for example, so if our “flash” is just a lot older…)
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If you had the opportunity to know everything in the universe, all of past-present-future, would you take it? If so, what is to be gained from it? If not, why?
no
lol
Yeah probably
Yeah, as I’m talking, I’m taking it that our metaphorical “Flash” is just, like, Rickey Henderson at stealing bases, just a freak of nature with no clear cause of being better. I think once you start getting into weight classes or sex classes or age classes where you’re not excluding a single person just for being too good but trying to create a specific category to compete within it’s fairly reasonable to enforce
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yes
easily
I’m trying to find my philosophy paper where I wrote about this.
I think it depends on how deterministic you consider the universe to be
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Least surprising answer.
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yeah yeah
but i could stop so much wrong
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literal information overload our brains cannot hold all that information
its evidently meant to exclude that
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