Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo

walrus01

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.

connorboyle

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.

jofzar

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

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.

didibus

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?

foobar1962

Perhaps Polo will end up like competitive sailing with one-design classes based on the clone of horse. "Measurement" would be a blood test for drugs and dna.

andai

>“It was the same,” he recalls. “Same movements, same head.... I couldn’t believe it.” My grandpa said the same thing, first time he saw me.