Fitness

your body *absolutely* does not know what it needs, though, and it's been proven *repeatedly* by tens of thousands of researchers independently

your body wants to stay dormant, consume highly palatable calorie dense food, not to expel energy, not to learn anything new, watch tv all day, brainrot, watch porn, and give up

and as to the main point made by @androidsixteen.eth? about "knows what it wants"? yeah sure it *wants* to not feel pain in the knees, but does it want to stretch to prevent that? nope

it *wants* lower back not to strain, but does it *want* to lift with the legs? fuck no

it *wants* not to have diabetes, but does it want to give up on a sugary diet? again, no

your body is stupid as hell when it comes to long term vision

wearables help translating long term goals into short term "you haven't moved in 1 hour buddy, time to move?"

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feels kinda like saying: "governance is easy, just listen to the people"

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Yeah when you're in technocracy, it's very valid to say "listen to the people" without having the specific governance playbook figured out

There must be a heuristic that's the opposite of Chesterton's fence -- ie. when conditions are dire, you ought to make change regardless of how imperfect it is (startups are like this)

i think that's ignoring the relationship the people may have with their governance (not always symbiotic), and the environment they're in, and their adversaries.

we can certainly make midwit memes about how democracy is just "listening to the people" but do we really believe that it's not reductive?

"shows me that there's a lot of trauma around health and being told what to do" 💯, an understatement if anything

going back to your original point that "Sensors / wearables are a psyop." while i don't disagree that a lot of "AI coaching" type stuff is slop at best, i'd push back to say that sometimes we need to learn how to speak *with* our bodies again. we are a mishmash of components with different signals for communicating, and all of this changes with age too. something that wasn't relevant when we were teens can become acute in our 40s and we have to figure it out all over again (and again, and again).

sensors/metrics can help us notice when we're miscommunicating with our bodies, like a census or a town hall.

related blog post i wrote recently:

"shows me that there's a lot of trauma around health and being told what to do" 💯, an understatement if anything

going back to your original point that "Sensors / wearables are a psyop." while i don't disagree that a lot of "AI coaching" type stuff is slop at best, i'd push back to say that sometimes we need to learn how to speak *with* our bodies again. we are a mishmash of components with different signals for communicating, and all of this changes with age too. something that wasn't relevant when we were teens can become acute in our 40s and we have to figure it out all over again (and again, and again).

sensors/metrics can help us notice when we're miscommunicating with our bodies, like a census or a town hall.

related blog post i wrote recently: https://shazow.net/posts/conditioning/

I love how I made an off-the-cuff generalization and it's being scrutinized so acutely (not just by you, shows me that there's a lot of trauma around health and being told what to do)

It *is* reductive to say "listen to the people" or "listen to your body". Someone who is completely disconnected from their body could interpret the latter as binge drinking or consuming fast food all day. But it's directionally correct, and something people may need to hear explicitly and reductively (esp. in a society that is overwhelmingly trying to disempower you and tell you that you need to listen to experts to access your birthright -- good health).