For folks like me that were curious, yes it’s Peter Thiel.
He’s one letter away from being Thief
God, I really hope this doesn’t come to be. No offense to the people excited by it, and I totally get the appeal, but this would damage society so much. People taking performance enhancers, especially to extreme levels, put themselves insanely at risk medically. If this gets normalized, it’ll only be a matter of time before it becomes mainstream to bet on blowouts, heart attacks, roid rage scandals, etc. At that point, it’ll essentially be a tiny leap away from the game shows of Running Man, and then I’ll lose all faith in humanity.
Is it so much worse than existing, popular sports like boxing or American football which are known to cause brain damage to the athletes involved?
That’s a somewhat fair question except that we learned about the medical side effects over time after the sport was established. Now, if people started trying to specifically bet on the over/under on CTE or if UFC got rid of tap-outs, I’d equate it a bit more.
The fact that there has been growing concerns and increased societal pressure to do better regarding the health of athletes, anything that poses them more as sports-creatures who should be willing to die for their profession could lead to significant backsliding.
I didn’t expect the unreal tournament dystopia, I’ve got to be honest
Came here to say this…
I guess that’s one way to shorten life expectancies while maximizing worker productivity…
They really just see people as ants in a display, don’t they.
They are “people”, while we are something lesser
The headline avoids mentioning that this is legendary douchebag Peter Thiel of Palantir fame.
As cool as I think the concept is I don’t think it’s worth the inevitable deaths
Can’t wait to watch tweakers dropping dead on live tv, trying to run a marathon.
This is why we need to push the banks to offer better payment services. Fucks like him got rich with paypal because of inefficiencies in our banking systems. They are basically taxing all e-commerce by 1-3%.
I was finally able to do an insta-wire transfer to an online shop last month for the first time. Just my bank, transfering money and instant reception. But I still need to log in to a janky ass mobile app and approve each payment with an password / pin that needs to be short ergo insecure. Banks are still not offering the use of fido2 authentication. And there is still no electronic standard where a shop can send a payment request to autofil the wire transfer. There are better payment processors now but they still gobble up ~1% of the transfer. It’s a fucking racket.
something Bioshock something something Olympics
Bread and circuses
Anyone who would get enjoyment from watching this kind of event has a diseased soul. As has been said elsewhere: It’s BumFights with a higher budget.
