a picture of futuristic scottish people playing golf in the future (all white men and women, with the emergence of the first diversity in Scotland in millennia! Male and female post-human golfers. Hummmpph!)
Inductive learning is inherently a bias/perspective absorbing algorithm. But tuning in a default bias towards diversity for contemporary, futuristic and time agnostic settings seems like a sensible thing to do. People can explicitly override the sensible defaults as necessary, i.e. for nazi zombie android apocalypses, or the royalty of a future Earth run by Chinese overlords (Chung Kuo), etc.
One of the only reasons why we know people were playing golf on The Old Course at St. Andrews 600 years ago is because the king of England at the time thought his archers were spending too much time golfing versus practicing archery, and put out a decree to ban the sport among the soldiers. I don’t think anyone truly knows how old the sport is or when it first started being played at St Andrews.
> Golf has absolutely nothing to do with athleticism.
Golf has more than a little to do with athleticism, though, like many, especially individual, sports, it's possible for amateurs to play at (often, an approximation of) it without much athleticism.
Scottish kings absolutely played golf.
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