Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo

(knowablemagazine.org)

30 points | by gscott 1 hour ago

6 comments

  • didibus 4 minutes ago
    The thing is, what if there's an even better horse out there? Once you get on the cloning bandwagon, don't you also lock yourself out of looking/evolving an even better horse?
  • walrus01 55 minutes ago
    For a brief moment I thought this would be about something like robotic polo ponies, and considered the idea that four-legged high agility, high endurance robots had advanced significantly without me noticing.
    • fzil 7 minutes ago
      And i thought it was about those polo shirts and replicas of the horse logo on the “fake” t-shirts.
    • beau_g 43 minutes ago
      Though we are not yet competitive in the Argentinian Polo clone wars, we are making significant progress - https://www.satyress.com/
      • walrus01 37 minutes ago
        This has to be some kind of kink thing. Not judging, just how it looks from first appearances.
    • aussieguy1234 17 minutes ago
      That'd be alot more ethical than the current horse racing industry if it were the case.

      Humans riding racing robots id watch, but not horse racing.

    • valiant-comma 47 minutes ago
      Me too, I guess I don’t think of “replica” and “clone” as synonymous in the context of animals.
  • apt-apt-apt-apt 16 minutes ago
    Humans can likely be cloned too.

    Imagine 10,000 Albert Einsteins and John von Neumanns working together with modern AI on medical, scientific, and societal issues.

    Though there could be an Evil Einstein due to upbringing or something.

    • thefounder 12 minutes ago
      I am not sure if the Einsteins you clone would do what you want. Maybe they will want to be influencers on short video platforms.
    • didibus 6 minutes ago
      Don't twin studies mostly show this wouldn't be the case?
    • el_io 6 minutes ago
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  • jofzar 24 minutes ago
    Surprised that the legal drama part of this wasn't discussed, it's how I first heard about this

    https://youtu.be/VARJnzhVryc

  • connorboyle 42 minutes ago
    Another Argentina/cloning-connected story is that President Javier Milei cloned his dog Conan at least four times: https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-04-26/the-myst...

    The stories make me wonder if Argentina is a cloning hotspot, though I may be reading too much into two stories.

  • aaron695 31 minutes ago
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