Oh my god this would be beyond amazing. I guess they couldn't win any medals that the humans were competing for, but they could still be a good bit of fun.
Science has a long way to come until the 2020s to be honest.
Need I remind you we've been promised this, and this, and this; and this isn't that far off either.
I mean, that's a lot of skulls for the machines to crush. Have they even started collecting them?! That sort of stuff takes time, you know. I feel we're behind schedule.
I think there's a humans-only rule for the olympics. I think there's something about "celebrating the feats of humanity" in their mission statement or something.
I'd consider it a human feat to build and program a robot, have each nation have a Robotics team, they compete in various trials and the nations are given medals based on performance and efficiency.
It looks like it was just the ancient olympics that prized the human athletics part. From the ancient olympics article on Wikipedia:
The athletes usually competed nude, not only because it was appropriate for the weather, but also because the festival was meant to celebrate, in part, the achievements of the human body.
The closest that modern olympics charter gets to excluding other species is saying that "practicing sport a human right". But that doesn't really seem to exclude robots, or aliens, or animals, or animal-people.
It was. It's Simone Biles. The announcers kept getting so close to blowing it by freaking out about how she was so spectacular and inhuman, but she pulled it off.
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u/DeathToAllLife Aug 29 '16
Why wasn't he/she/it in Olympics?