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All machines are for laziness.
by jayd16 2mo ago
All machines are for laziness.
- 4gotunameagain 2mo agoWhat about exercise machines ?
- jayd16 2mo ago[flagged]
- 4gotunameagain 2mo agoWhat about the elliptical ?
- usef- 2mo agoWhat about it? You might need to do multiple different exercises outside to mimic it
- 4gotunameagain 2mo agoWhich exercise outside mimics that movement while simultaneously being so easy on the joints ? Anyway this is just silly, we are splitting hairs. A lot of machines have a functional purpose and do not exist for the lazy. The LHC, ships, thousands of examples.
- master-lincoln 2mo agoAren't ships just for people too lazy to swim and the large hadron collider for physicists that are too lazy to hand-accelerate particles and make them collide with 13.6 TeV of energy? /s
- GrinningFool 2mo agoThat doesn't really make sense. Assuming the effort is the same, how does laziness enter into it? There are myriad reasons someone might use stationary exercise machines over going outside - weather, bad neighbors, etc. Lazy doesn't make sense as one of them.
- globular-toast 2mo agoI think you are confusing machines with motors. Many machines do things that simply are not possible without. A bicycle, for example, is not at any less work than walking, but it enables you to go faster than you can run. Menually operated sewing machines produce stitches that would be infeasible by hand. Motorising any of those machines could be considered lazy, though.
- hk__2 2mo ago> A bicycle, for example, is not at any less work than walking Of course it is, at equivalent distance.
- Ekaros 2mo agoDepending on speed of course. At some speeds drag will cause significantly more work.
- deathanatos 2mo ago… I dunno. Bikes aren't just efficient, they're the most efficient form of human movement. 60 W gets you 3 mph walking or 9 mph biking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_performance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_performance On my own bike, I don't think there is a pace that isn't easier. Even at slow speeds, it's not a whole lot of work. (And you can always change to a gear where it just isn't a lot of work to go slow. The challenge is more remaining upright, but a low gear and the barest of forward momentum will help that.)
- globular-toast 2mo agoWho cycles at less than 9mph? According to your link the average cycling speed in Copenhagen is 9.6mph so, according to your numbers, people are putting in more energy than they would with walking to go faster. Nobody cycles at walking speed because it saves energy.
- globular-toast 2mo ago
- cryo32 2mo agoThis is totally wrong. Some machines are capability amplifiers. Other machines are shit puking buck passing time sinks.
- vouaobrasil 2mo agoNot exactly. A drawing program could just create a new "blank slate" that substitutes some old skill requirements for new skills. The key point is that SOME machines create a sufficient mass of "blank slate"-like environments for active creativity and others (like AI) only diminish that room for creatvity to flourish. The danger is creating and using machines of the latter type.