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Or maybe this guy was sufficiently motivated anyway. And if he had did a search for “running plan for beginners to get in shape”, he would have gotten pretty mu
by gretch 3y ago
Or maybe this guy was sufficiently motivated anyway. And if he had did a search for “running plan for beginners to get in shape”, he would have gotten pretty much the same place.
I think LLMs are very powerful as a tool and believe in their future potential. But this narrative of ChatGPT getting him addicted to running is super cringe.
As he was pushing through workouts he was probably thinking “wow I’m going to get so many views about I can attribute this to Chatgpt”
- jvanderbot 3y agoI agree, but the power of conjuring manageable workout plans without sifting through piles of over optimized forum posts really lowers the barrier to entry. That analysis paralysis gets me off the wagon a few times a year when I seek to level up my workout game.
- red-iron-pine 3y agoIt's really not that hard. Couch-to-5k (aka C25K) if searched has a number of websites that are the top results and literally has a plan on the main page. It's faster to just search for "C25K" than type out a chatGPT prompt and you dont have to trust a bot
- jvanderbot 3y agoThat's probably fine if your goals are already covered by a well understood acronym. Its not really a counter example to "chatgpt might lower barrier to entry".
- fragmede 3y agoyou take motivation where you can get it. if Internet points got him to run a literal extra mile, good for him! I'd love to lose 26 lbs.
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- sdwr 3y agoThere was a SSC post a while back about how every new kind of psychotherapy works great at first, and then reverts to the mean over time. Gotta be the same idea - some guy thinking "I'm going to be so successful once I prove my new concept works!"