alt Hacker News>Can you set some timers for my sport session, can you plan a pure body weight session ? Yes, that's perfect. Wait, actually, remove the jumping jacks."
Better yet, why exercise -which is so repetitive- if we can create a machine that just does it for you, including the dopamine triggering, why play an arcade video game where we can create a machine that fires the neuron needed to produce the exact same level of a excitement than the best video game.
And why find mates when my robot can morph into any woman in the world, or better yet, the brain implants that trigger the exact same feelings than having sex and love.
Bleak, we are oversimplifying existence itself and it doesn't lead to a nice place.
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> Bleak, we are oversimplifying existence itself and it doesn't lead to a nice place.
We are already on this path for many-many years, certainly decades if not centuries, although availability was definitely spotty in the past.
It is also kind of impossible to hop off this train, while it is individually possible to reject any of these conveniences, in general they just become a part of life. Which is not necessarily a bad thing, but just different.
Zizek is a good reference here. What’s the word for it, interpassivity?
Maybe I should have rephrased everything with : " Make me happy"
"Make me happy"
"Make me happy"
"Make me happy"