Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2026/cloned-polo-horses

31•gscott•1h ago

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walrus01•59m 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.

valiant-comma•51m ago

Me too, I guess I don’t think of “replica” and “clone” as synonymous in the context of animals.

beau_g•47m ago

Though we are not yet competitive in the Argentinian Polo clone wars, we are making significant progress - https://www.satyress.com/

walrus01•40m ago

This has to be some kind of kink thing. Not judging, just how it looks from first appearances.

aussieguy1234•21m 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.

fzil•11m ago

And i thought it was about those polo shirts and replicas of the horse logo on the “fake” t-shirts.

connorboyle•46m 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.

allthetime•38m ago

That is where many of the nazi war doctors who escaped prosecution ended up…

wahern•7m ago

Seems Brazil lost its early lead after cloning Hitler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boys_from_Brazil_(film)

jofzar•28m ago

Surprised that the legal drama part of this wasn't discussed, it's how I first heard about this

https://youtu.be/VARJnzhVryc

apt-apt-apt-apt•20m 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•16m 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•10m ago

Don't twin studies mostly show this wouldn't be the case?

whateveracct•4m ago

ur replying to an anti-humanist

didibus•8m 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?

ethanj8011•3m ago

Yes, but developing a better horse has a low likelihood of success and a relatively long time horizon. There are some arms race dynamics here in that as long as no one else is trying to develop a better horse, you probably are better off just not trying to either.

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