alt Hacker News> the value just in the co-opting of another human being's attention?
Thats a weird way of describing it.
A machine telling me to exercise and eat right will be ignored, even if the advice is correct. A person I trust taking me aside, looking me in the eye and asking me the same would be taken far more seriously.
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alex43578 • yesterday at 11:19 PM
Maybe for you, but that model clearly doesn’t generalize, or dieticians and physical trainers would only have success stories to point to.
That may well be true if you need to be persuaded to exercise and eat right.
OTOH, if you don't need to be persuaded and just want information on how best to go about doing it, then I think it makes little difference where the information comes from as long as it's of reasonable quality.