rarsamx

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[–] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I haven't done tracking on a day today, but every now and then I've checked the calories in the food I eat and the calories burnt in the exercise I do. For example, I exercises in the morning for 20 mins (200 cal) had protein shake (250 cal) went for lunch at a friend's house: she served Chinese pork noodles (400 Cal) and apple crumb (400 cal). We swam for an hour. I biked 11 km each way (600 cal). I went to the rock climbing gym for two hours (400-600 cal). I ate 1/2 cup of nuts (350 Cal) and a celery stalk (6 cal) 1 hour before bed.

So, if we consider my BMR of 1,483 cal/day plus the exercise (say 1,000 cal) I needed to eat 2,483 cal to break even.

But I ate no more than 1,500 cal. Even if I underestimated, I didn't eat more than 1,500 cal.

That means a 1,000 cals calory deficit.

That's an example of a day where I ate more than usual because of the visit but exercised as usual.

Am I counting correctly?

[–] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I don't think it's just you. Like it wasn't just one person thinking computers would make us dumb or the automobile making us lazy. I'm betting that someone somewhere thought that cooking food on the fire would make us weaker.

Technology has that ability to generate opposition from status quo.

And as with any technology, there are good uses, bad uses and frivolous uses.

Remember the awful nonsense web pages of the early 90's?

I think AI will make the life's of some of us easier. But I also think it will continue widening the digital divide.

The biggest concern is that, by nature, AI needs massive amounts of power which can only be paid by people with big resources and those people are training it. AI has the trainer's bias.

However, end consumer AI is the tip of the iceberg. AI will succeed when we don't even realize it's there.

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