that would indeed be fascinating, i’d watch it
gives you a sense of what’s actually going on in the country, how are the people doing
announcer: it seems that Russia has randomly selected their 3 time gold medal athlete again to compete! how lucky!
No problem, we can just put all birth certificates, death certificates, and government-issued ID (front and back) on the blockchain to ensure randomness.
How would that work? I mean the blockchain part, not the personal information of 8 billion people in the hands of few people part.
you base the random dice roll on the proof of work of the block chain. proofs of work generate randomness because (proof by contradiction) if they didn’t it would be easy to find the next block and make a bunch of money.
EDIT: more concretely, in a blockchain, “miners” compute a “hash” of the chain up to the latest block, with an extra random “nonce”. they then check if this hash has a certain distinguishing feature (eg 5 leading zeros). if it doesn’t have this feature, the recompute the hash with a new nonce. the rest of the bits in the hash thus become random. thus, if you commit to using a future hash to determine your lottery, it can be guaranteed to be random (or prove you have enough money to manipulate the block chain which is very difficult)
does this need to be done 8 billion times or just for the number of olympic participants? I guess this is a resource question.
just for the number of participants. and there’s a construction (a pseudorandom generator) thatll let you do it with one block
I would 100% watch that
My surprise is that this isn’t a common thing from the TV network. It would be fairly simple to do a “virtual” overlay of some average Joe running on the same track from previous years, and individual sports would be even easier to do featurettes.
I’d lean toward two people being featured. An average Joe male and a decathlete female or some such. There are some events that even an average man would crush, but seeing the woman beat the guy consistently would also be kind of fun.
What events do you reckon an average Joe would crush? I’m struggling to think of one.
Mental gymnastics of course.
I think they mean relative to a woman, so basically anything where strength is a major factor. I think they specified decathlon athlete for women so they’d be on more equal footing.
Testosterone is a hell of a drug. For example, my wife is friends with a female powerlifter. While I do work out, it’s not really with any sort of consistency and I never focus on raw strength. Her second place winning squat max was my 12RM.
Lol I don’t think you can compare a local powerlifting comp with the Olympics. For reference, the current record for the women’s 49kg weight class clean and jerk is 117kg. The average American man is ~90kg, which would put them in the 87kg+ weight class, where the womens record for the snatch is 140kg. I think you’d be hard pressed to find an average Joe who could snatch his bodyweight, let alone ~1.5x .
I’m not. I’m comparing local female power lifting to the average man. We’re strictly talking about non-olympians.
I’d lean toward two people being featured. An average Joe male and a decathlete female or some such. There are some events that even an average man would crush
This is what I was talking about?
Right, he’s talking about compared to an average woman. The reason the decathlete is brought up is because they were talking about the fact that she might beat the average man.
The line you left out is important to the context. The whole comment (and really the whole post) was talking about people competing alongside the Olympians to show how they’re insanely better than the average person.
Ooooohhhhh I get it now, cheers
curling is the only thing i can think of. Maybe a luge but thats just because the extra weight gives him an advantage.
Nah an average man would suck ass at curling. Believe me I have a girl friend who does curling semi professionally and invited us to come try a couple times. It’s way harder than it looks and if you never tried it before you will not get a single stone inside the circle. The amount of control needed for that is not something an average person has.
Inertia is a loooong process, you’re right that’s why dudes just fire 100 mph pucks at each other
Shout out to the US women’s hockey team though, they’re crushing it
I think being a decathlete is a bigger advantage because they have a better intuitive feeling of physics.
When I was a kid and didn’t know anything about any celebrities other than what I saw on TV or heard on the radio, I used to enjoy some stand-up by Seinfeld.
One joke I once enjoyed from him is that the luge is the only Olympic sport one might engage in involuntarily.
Yeah pushing the stone is not an issue since you do it with your legs. Your hands don’t really do much apart from giving the stone a bit of spin if you need it.
Mental gymnastics of course.
Thank you lol, started my day with a laugh
Terrific
I’ve been trying to defend this idea in my friend group for years! Let’s call it the normalympics, and treat it like half a reality show half a sport competition. I want to see an middle age accountant learn pole vaulting each weekend during one year.
May I present to you Eddie the Eagle
It used to be average people participating in the olympics, a long long time ago. before sports medicine and state investment.
I love it. Lets fine tune.
Alcoholicorn said
give them 1 year and a salary to train, make every event into Cool Runnings. Also only allow 26 year olds so we have a level playing field.
That would lead to doping abuse and then we’d have to do tons of checks for a year.
But how about:
- give them only weeks to train, but on site.
- have a lottery group of 10 per country, allowing only 3 to compete. That would even it out a tiny bit.
- the 7 none-competitors are still given responsibilities on the team. As supporters, coaches, spokespeople, crew, … idk managers, etc. I wanna see what the teams come up with. Do they sell merch? Do they provide buses to get fans to cheer at the event? Do they serve their athletes to their best performance?
- everybody is given the same fixed salary separately, though
- ah yes and everybody must see the same doctors provided by the Lottery Olympics Committee. Not someone hidden or bribe-able
Then during the weeks on site there is an entire media team providing insights, doing interviews, shows and whatnot. And a reality tv show or whatever the kids are watching these days.
That would lead to doping abuse and then we’d have to do tons of checks for a year.
Ooor… we could just allow all doping? See which country comes up with the coolest drugs?
oh yeah and the winner will be given the epithet Best Random Person.
39 Year old Electrician Dale walks across it without any issue. You see, it’s just like one of his jobs that someone else engineered from a desk without ever seeing that the job is impossible. But, Dale is the man who pulls it off by crossing narrow trusses carrying tools and the new equipment, while his assistant watches from below rethinking his career knowing Dale’s the man he’s going to have to replace in the next 10-15 years.
I’ve said this for years. Make it like The Price is Right and just call people down from the stands to do the 110m hurdles.
Seeing somebody train their entire life and have the perfect genetics for something isn’t encouraging normal people to have a go. I want to see a fat builder doing the triple jump for a cash prize.
I was always bored of seeing “the best” to do his thing. Sure it’s interesting for a few seconds to see someone go absolutely nuts on a yo-yo, but then it’s just noise. And the next one who is the “second best” just does the same thing again, but idk, his string has less tension or some shit.
I still would never watch someone do sports but the other day I had this idea: Children sports must be more exciting to watch because children grow -> they have to adapt to their new arm length on the match day! Whoops his aim is off by 2 cm today, can he adapt in time??!
I don’t wanna hear about all the abuse that would encourage
This is legit an SNL ski. I think they did it for figure skating.
I vote yes!
Should be applied to civil service jobs
Good, I’m in :)
