simulated primality — maanav's thoughts

I was at the gym this morning and couldn’t help but notice something: Isn’t it kinda weird that humans now have these indoor spaces called gyms where all we do is lift artificially heavy objects a few times a week? Our ancestors were more ripped than us without ever needing to do pull-push-legs; they actually just moved around and lifted things in their natural lifestyle. Yeah, I know it’s hard to imagine but you had to physically move to survive back then. This is a broader pattern I’ve been seeing. There are primal human needs that humans satisfied in their lives earlier but can’t satisfy anymore, and so we construct “simulations” to fulfill these instead. If you think about it, we see these simulations everywhere: Gambling and casinos: Humans have an inherent desire to take risk. In a world where people’s lives become increasingly monotonous and risk-off, gambling is the simulation where they direct their risk-on energy. I was also reading an interview recently with a casino which h

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