[Xc43]

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: ?

[infogulch]

Alt3: 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?

[marcosdumay]

My impression is that professional sports won't have a long-lasting future. I don't see any way to avoid that fate.

[watwut]

The best future would be people actively doing sports and competing locally in insignificant but fun leagues.