[fumar]

It feels like every other convenience in modern life. We trade off some value for lack of human ability. Should you drive or walk or bike? In the US, most people drive and sit all day. Now we have fenced off part of our week for dedicated physical exercise to counteract physical atrophy.

[palmotea]

> It feels like every other convenience in modern life. We trade off some value for lack of human ability. Should you drive or walk or bike? In the US, most people drive and sit all day. Now we have fenced off part of our week for dedicated physical exercise to counteract physical atrophy.

And arguably, our society has made a lot of bad choices about many "convenience[s] in modern life." For instance, cities should probably be designed to make you walk more by default, so healthy physical activity isn't turned into a chore you then have to have the discipline to do consistently.

Basically, collectively, we're stupid and unwise, picking short term convenience and neglecting the medium and long term, and we need to get better at that.

[raxxorraxor]

> Should you drive or walk or bike?

Funny you should mention that. There was a HN post about the prompt similar to this: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 100m away. Should I drive or walk?" - Was quite difficult for even frontier models. Surely they now do better, but it was quite entertaining reading the answers.

[brazukadev]

> Surely they now do better

Surely not https://claude.ai/share/b657c13d-0aed-4bb3-8250-c5ca4853dc42

[pizza234]

I agree in principle, although I personally consider mental atrophy to be far more serious than physical atrophy (and I value physical fitness very high already!).