Comment by audunw

Comment by audunw 19 hours ago

“Bicycle for the mind” analogy is actually really good here. Since bicycles and other transportation technology has made us increasingly weak, which has a negative impact on physical health. At this point it has reached such a critical point that people are taking seriously the fact that we need physical exercise to be in good health. My company recently introduced 60 minutes a week of activity during work hours. It’s probably a good investment since physical health affects performance and mental health.

Coming back to AI, maybe in the future we will need to explicitly take mental exercise as seriously as we do with physical exercise now. Perhaps people will go to mental gyms. (That’s just a school you may say, but I think the focus could be different: Not having a goal to complete a class and then finish, but continuous mental exercises..)

rohansingh 18 hours ago

> bicycles ... has made us increasingly weak

This is pretty difficult for me to buy. Cycling has been shown time & again to be a great way to increase fitness.

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nottorp 18 hours ago

> Cycling has been shown time & again to be a great way to increase fitness.
Compared to sitting on your butt in a car or public transport.
Perhaps not compared to walking everywhere and chasing the antelope you want to cook for lunch.
I think what he meant is that both bicycles and LLMs are a force multiplier and you still provide the core of the work, but not all of the work any more.

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- alex77456 10 hours ago
  
  Cycling, in my experience, is usually way more intense than walking or even running/jogging. It just lets you cover larger distance and gives you more control over how your energy is used.
  With the example of LLMs, sure, you could cycle the initial destination you were meant to walk to - write an article with its help, save a few hours and call it a day. Or you could cycle further and use the saved time to work on something a text model can't help you well with.
  
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noobermin 18 hours ago

I once had blood clots in my legs. I couldn't walk in the worst parts of it but cycling down the street was easier than walking for more than ten metres. It's better than sitting on your butt for hours on end, sure.

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