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  • There is no way that with proper care your joints should be creaking at 30. And its absolutely bullshit that at 45 you can’t be in good shape or even better shape than your twenties. High level competition is done at all age levels, it has never stopped at 30 or even 45. If you are competitive you can find competition. But that’s rhe problem, most people just stop competitive sport, they hit their limit and find it hard to continue to improve. So they take other direction in life. But then also stop taking care of themselves and never kept a regime up. No, most just fall into the trope of the body ending after your twenties. It doesn’t, your body is capable of being healthy, strong and supple. Through food and light exercise to keep it up and if you want high level workout regimes.



  • I’m 45 and topfit. If you really feel like you’re declining at 30 you’ve never taken care of yourself. What makes you think you can do it now?

    Preferably to remain steady: Eat a varied (mostly) plant based diet. Work up a sweat at least 3 times a week and do some light movement everyday for 30 minutes. You don’t need to do anything crazy, you don’t need to fucking start pumping iron, you don’t need to become a protein bro. Just find 30 minutes a day and stop eating food that you already know is bad for yourself. Especially not too much.

    And fucking go to a doctor when your joints hurt or it takes you 5 time’s longer to heal. It’s not normal. Stop normalizeing being unhealthy.


  • Like it has always been done. This question is such a weird one to me. The problem isn’t that AI is making shit up, people make shit up all the time. They lie, cheat, make mistakes, are dumb, etc. The problem is that we don’t know if we can trust what we trusted before. But the solution is always simply trusting certain people to tell you the truth. scientists, journalists, teachers, publishers, etc. This has never not been the case. We can’t trust AI not dreaming up answers. That’s just how it is, and that’s not a problem that needs solving. It’s a fundamental part of current LLM technology.

    Maybe in the future we can find something that makes LLM’s more trustworthy, but as of yet, that’s simply not the case. So I don’t see a problem here. If you want to know the truth about something you’re going to have to look at sources and do some digging until you find something you’re trusting, then that’s what’s real to you.

    And unless you want some deep philosophical discussion on the nature of Truth and how to arrive at Reality. Than this is how it works and how it has always worked.



  • The connection between attention and economic value has been around for a long time. It didn’t come about by YouTube creators. The headlines sells papers. Commercials sells products. Titles sell views.

    The problem is that there is no punishment for falsehoods, you can say that you have the first, the biggest, the most, the craziest and it doesn’t need to have any bearing on reality. While in other media there are often some safeguards, code of conducts, or whatever. Since most other media has competitors, keeping eachother somewhat honest or straight up have an oversight committe. While platforms like TikTok, YouTube, etc. are exploiting content creators and care only about their short term growth. There will constantly be a stream of new content creators who will have to compete for views on the same platform, with the same algorithms.







  • And it’s merely a hypothesis, there is no proof. Also we can assume that chemical plants are aware and have taken precautions, but it still happens. Back in the day it was speculated that chemists caried microcrystals around in their beards. This problem has been around for a while. One of the coolest hypothesis has been put forward by Rupert Sheldrake. He thinks that there is something in nature akin to memory. A force of nature as you will.



  • I don’t know why we should take 12 year olds as an example? Surely you didn’t know certain things at 12 that you know now. Assuming you are 13+

    I’m just saying that things will trickle into common knowledge. And there will always be people who know jack shit. Obviously.

    But when you play music from a streaming service you don’t go like. Wow people had to rewind cassette tapes! No, you understand the progression music carriers have made and just enjoy the music. You could buy a tape recorder and tapes and they are still available, if you would want. The same applies to coding, and other technologies.


  • You mean that less people need to understand code? Like that’s just natural progression. There are many coding languages because hardly anybody knows how to code in machine language or punch cards and we’ve been making coding easier for humans. The progression to natural language is a natural one.

    LLMs bridging the gap between coding and natural language isn’t going to be a mystery in the future. Just like we don’t go like “a person punched all those holes in the cards? no way!” Because yes they did and we all understand that that was something that needed to be done at that time. We simply appreciate the amount of work it took. It’s a lot more that typing ‘cryptic letters’, which we will all know in the future also as coding. i don’t understand why you believe everybody in the future is an idiot.


  • It does matters who did/does the art. That’s only possible if you can separate the two. Art can be copied and has been since forever. People value the same art from different artists differently. It’s not the art itself that carries the value. If the painting of the Mona Lisa in the Louvre turned out to be a facsimile for display, it’s identical in every way, would the people enjoy it less? Say that it isn’t ‘real’ even though it is right there in front of their eyes? Would that facsimile be worth the same? Clearly people aren’t just interested in what the art is, but who made it. We believe that the artist puts meaning and intent in the art, but these aren’t in the art itself. For most of the art we experience that is completely unavailable to us. There is clearly a distinction between our experience of art and our experience of art from the ‘original’ artist. So while knowing who made what and why adds value to art, it isn’t necessary to experience and enjoy this art.

    It is completely conceivable that someone feels attracted to the aesthetics of art whilst fully ignorant about the artist. The artist can’t control someones emotions, thoughts and feelings. It’s not the artist who decided what aesthetics evolved adter millions of years of human evolution, conditioning, culture. An artist can only hope to align themselves to it and hope people agree on it. And so good art can elicit all the right feelings even when nothing is known about the. artist.