[logfromblammo]

As I am a fan of the lazy programmer theory, we should be encouraging people to be lazy now, so that the biochemical effects of physical activity may be effortlessly emulated by a brilliant technical workaround later. The more smart people we have working on exercise-free health, the better.

Your selfish act of keeping your own body healthy with literally dozens of minutes of pointless kilocalorie-burning and wasted watts every week is a Nash equilibrium choice. Think of all the benefits to society that could be realized if no one ever needed to exercise to stay healthy. But if you're healthy now, you have no particular incentive to cheat death. You're taking brains out of that innovation lottery.

Come on, people. We can automate people out of their paying jobs, but can't automate exercise out of existence?!

Perhaps there is a sort of cognitive dissonance in play. People who have remained healthy their entire lives by disciplined application of exercise would undoubtedly feel betrayed and devalued when people can achieve the same results with drugs and implants.

/s

Programming and doing exercise are not entirely rivalrous tasks, but I can get a lot done in 3 hours if I am completely focused and entirely uninterrupted (even from self-sourced interruptions).