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What are the alternatives? Which future do we want among those alternatives? Alt0: Stop optimizing. Unlikely. The incentives will pull agents to optimize. Alt
by Xc43 5y ago
What are the alternatives? Which future do we want among those alternatives?
Alt0: Stop optimizing. Unlikely. The incentives will pull agents to optimize.
Alt1: Change the rules of the games. Unlikely to a lesser degree. They did this to hockey relatively recently.
Alt2: Go local. Like the rise of kabbadi in India, going for local sport or local groceries will allow for greater diversity. Somewhat happening.
Alt3: ?
- marcosdumay 5y agoMy impression is that professional sports won't have a long-lasting future. I don't see any way to avoid that fate.
- watwut 5y agoThe best future would be people actively doing sports and competing locally in insignificant but fun leagues.
- infogulch 5y agoAlt3: Teams compete across an aggregation of multiple sports, which are randomly-ish chosen from a pool at the beginning of the season. Say, 10 sports total, 3 of which are chosen each season. This is the same way ML models are kept from specializing too much, right?