Going to the gym is like a korean MMORPG

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    Another leg day, went heavy with deadlifts and squats. I'm gonna be walking like an old man tomorrow.

    I've done legs yesterday, I was not able to get out of my bed this morning


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    Yo, this may have been answered, but do any of you guys track your progress at the gym? And if so, what do you use?

    Excel is great

    Guys i'm growing a small belly, should i try to drink beers with less alcohol, slow down on the bigmacs, walk 10 minutes per day and try to sleep on the stomach ?????


    I was looking into surgery

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    Guys i'm growing a small belly, should i try to drink beers with less alcohol, slow down on the bigmacs, walk 10 minutes per day and try to sleep on the stomach ?????


    I was looking into surgery


    Drink more beers and less water !!!!!!!!

    I've been going to the gym with a few friends/ co-workers for a few weeks already and I'm already feeling a lot better.

    I had no idea I was missing those exercises, lol

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    The only thing that keeps you playing a corean MMORPG are your friends. They keep you coming back because you want to hang out with them. They encourage you and make the grinding feel less strenuous.

    So, let's share them gym/jogging/healthcare stories and keep each other on track and motivated? Am I still going to be on the gym next month? What about you?


    In the past, the Core has been there for me. You helped me overcome work, you rooted for me when I my job and you celebrated when I got very close to becoming a freelance game journalist. Now, I need you guys again. It's what Arhurt said when he created this topic, I need motivation and encouragement.


    That's a lot for me to admit and I feel pretty vulnerable right now. Ever since I quit smoking I've steadily been gaining weight. I used to be pumped up, full six pack and everything, but then I had an accident which ruined my knees. I gained a bit off weight after that but nothing major. I went from 83 kilo to 89 kilo. After I got married (4 years ago) I quite smoking. Over the past 4 years I tried several comebacks at the gym, diets, etc but they all failed eventually (lack of discipline). So throughout those years I went up and down and today I peeked at 106,2 kilo. Now I realize I substituted one addiction for another. I need help.


    Normally I would go back to the gym, have another run at it, tell my friends (who probably already think, here we go again) and so on. Today, I decided that this method obviously doesn't work. Instead of immediately trying to run at full speed I should first start with crawling. So no gym memberships and extreme diets. No, I'm going to start with my eating habits. The first step is dropping all the junk food, chocolate, soda's, etc and try to eat more regularly and healthy.


    What do I need the Core for? Well, I want to use this topic (unless you all prefer I split this into a separate topic) to daily post what I've eaten and take it from there. It would be cool if people hunt me down if I don't post, offer insights into what I'm eating and any other suggestions. I'm going to do the same with my friends and my wife. So instead of going all out with everything at once I'm relying on my offline and online environment for much needed help in detoxing from all this crap.


    What does the Core say?

    You clearly have little understanding of how little we understand about the brain. We are not going to be uploading an entire human consciousness in the next 50 years. You are smoking crack.


    This is a akin to people in the 50s claiming by 2000 we would have flying nuclear powered cars.

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    You clearly have little understanding of how little we understand about the brain. We are not going to be uploading an entire human consciousness in the next 50 years. You are smoking crack.


    This is a akin to people in the 50s claiming by 2000 we would have flying nuclear powered cars.


    I didn't say that either, but we WILL have commercial nanobots by 2060. They might not be powerful to keep us alive for all eternity, but they will be able to grant us greater lifespans. As for the brain, go read up on connectomes. There are R&D departments doing good work on these topics even today.

    I have talked about this with my brother who did his masters in this area. We have very little understand of how the brain functions as far as in computing terms and even if we have some understanding that doesn't mean progress is going to happen quickly. Again:


    This is a akin to people in the 50s claiming by 2000 we would have flying nuclear powered cars.


    We understood nuclear power and flight 50 years ago right. So why don't we have flying nuclear powered cars? Because our understanding was incredibly basic. Just as our understanding of the brain is comparatively incredibly basic. It's also unlikely that nanites are going to be widely accessible in 50 years even if we have mastered the tech. We starting make prosthetic robotic limbs 30+ years ago, most people that need them still don't have access to them. Just because tech exists doesn't mean it will be commercially widespread.


    And, btw writing "Going to be at least 50 years before we're at that point," to a post that states we will be able to upload our brains into computers is "say"ing that....

    You're forgetting we didn't get computers until about 60 years ago, first off. There's been a huge acceleration in research and development in all scientific areas ever since then.


    Second of all, master in what? I don't know if you're being deliberately vague, but you're giving out zero information about the topic other than "IT CANT BE DONE LOL". Even if the case is that your brother has a master in whatever area that even comes close to this, 50 years is a LONG TIME. It's TWICE your age - and just look at the development that has happened from when you were born until now, with inferior means. Improved technology also means we'll get improved research faster, meaning we're constantly accelerating the technological evolution, as it were. Moore's law is still in effect, and will be so until we get to a point where quantum blocking just becomes too much to handle, at the very least. Then we can create universal constructors or whatever the fuck people will come up with to break down the barrier and press forward.


    Even if the case is that we don't know how the brain functions, and aren't able to understand or translate the brain's high level functions into computational methods by that time, it STILL does not mean that we won't be able to copy and reconstruct it - allowing it to serve essentially the same purpose. And I'm betting more on the latter happening than the former.


    So no, it's not like people in the 50s claiming that by 2000 we'll have flying cars or whatever. Because we're not in the fucking 50s anymore, and the scientific spectrum has broadened to an immense size, as has the acceleration of scientific research. I'll make you a wager that in 50 years (let's say by 2060 because I'm fucking lenient), we'll have the right technology to increase our longevity by at least 10-20 years, and within those 10-20 years we'll find a possibility for eternal life. Even before 2060 I'm sure we'll have technology that will be able to extend our life for smaller amounts.

    Haha. Ok mate. Change your arguement. Which started with "within 50 years we will be immortal" to "we'll have the right technology to increase our longevity by at least 10-20 years". Maybe you should check the post your making agreement with before you post...


    We will indeed see in 50 years and you still don't understand commercial viability...


    Also as to the uploading of a brain, you clearly have little understanding again of how complex a brain is. As to the masters. cognitive science. The exact field you are debating. "essentially the same purpose". No. That isn't how a brain works, a brain is not simply a complex modern computer with AI. If you wanted to make brain dead retards then yes, you might want to try the latter. If you actually want the person who was there before you are going to need to do the former. This idea that all we need to upload a human and redownload it else where is mass computing power is incredibly naive.

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