Biases, Weights - Aidan Smith
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AI makes gym bros out of all of us?
← Blog Jan 5, 2026 Biases, Weights Growing up, lifting weights seemed the persuasion of calcium-brained Denisovans, a vestigial talent useful only for ripping thick-rinded oranges in two ugly chunks before the dexterity to peel them evolved. The atavistic Heavy Objects of the gym seem to belong in prisons or dungeons or other places that polite society has forgotten. They are counterparty to the breast implant, monuments to Fisherian runaway. I prided myself in my weakness in the same way I prided myself in my accidentally-capri sweatpants— a body as mind extension to food as fuel utilitariani
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