It's nothing remotely on the level of Matt Yglesias, but I kinda do have a Rationalist voice -- coupled with sometimes drifting into using UK English, Portuguese, or Slavic-like pronunciation of certain words. At least I have the baseline of a California accent!
I can see where some of the Rationalists are coming from -- they're typically way too INTP Autist for me, but I could envision getting into a local Postrat scene if I ended up living in a place where one was active.
On the gym stuff... Good lord is that a complicated one. I would guess they aren't completely oblivious to it -- instead, more of an acknowledged resignation of something extremely complicated beyond their abilities that they've given up on even remotely trying on, coupled with negative energy left over from experiences with PE growing up and feeling disembodied in general.
Take me for example -- it is something I'm considering trying sometime, perhaps in 2027. But I'd need access to something like Adderall to boost my attention span that would hopefully be enough to offset my really bad mind-body coordination. I'm accident prone as it is, and I'd need to weigh if the risks of ending up permanently injured because of some minor mishap would be worth it -- plus the anxiety that would come from the process and looking like a complete idiot in public. Then there's the massive amounts of mental bandwidth that would be consumed researching all the diet stuff, the signal to noise ratio in the health and wellness space, and having to navigate all the potential scams and grifters in an area outside my expertise. Hell, I have friends that are personal trainers, dieticians, and ESSM rehab people, and even then it seems like a lot.
I get why many Autists just consider it way too hectic and conclude ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
This is why people should hire trainers. They think that the working out stuff is basically self evident or low IQ but if this were the case, the majority of people who worked out would look great. What you are mostly paying for is someone who isn’t going to judge you for being uncoordinated (not bc we are nice but bc we think everyone is) and you have way less of an audience reacting to you being uncoordinated—we run interference for you mostly by being bigger than the people who would bully you. We’re like AI, you should have us worry about what you don’t want to.
It’s cool to wait but when you start you should dedicate like 9 months to sticking it out and sucking. The thing is most people expect too much too fast. The main goal is to be able to do it for an extended time with a smart person. Everything else flows from that set up.
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It's nothing remotely on the level of Matt Yglesias, but I kinda do have a Rationalist voice -- coupled with sometimes drifting into using UK English, Portuguese, or Slavic-like pronunciation of certain words. At least I have the baseline of a California accent!
I can see where some of the Rationalists are coming from -- they're typically way too INTP Autist for me, but I could envision getting into a local Postrat scene if I ended up living in a place where one was active.
On the gym stuff... Good lord is that a complicated one. I would guess they aren't completely oblivious to it -- instead, more of an acknowledged resignation of something extremely complicated beyond their abilities that they've given up on even remotely trying on, coupled with negative energy left over from experiences with PE growing up and feeling disembodied in general.
Take me for example -- it is something I'm considering trying sometime, perhaps in 2027. But I'd need access to something like Adderall to boost my attention span that would hopefully be enough to offset my really bad mind-body coordination. I'm accident prone as it is, and I'd need to weigh if the risks of ending up permanently injured because of some minor mishap would be worth it -- plus the anxiety that would come from the process and looking like a complete idiot in public. Then there's the massive amounts of mental bandwidth that would be consumed researching all the diet stuff, the signal to noise ratio in the health and wellness space, and having to navigate all the potential scams and grifters in an area outside my expertise. Hell, I have friends that are personal trainers, dieticians, and ESSM rehab people, and even then it seems like a lot.
I get why many Autists just consider it way too hectic and conclude ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
This is why people should hire trainers. They think that the working out stuff is basically self evident or low IQ but if this were the case, the majority of people who worked out would look great. What you are mostly paying for is someone who isn’t going to judge you for being uncoordinated (not bc we are nice but bc we think everyone is) and you have way less of an audience reacting to you being uncoordinated—we run interference for you mostly by being bigger than the people who would bully you. We’re like AI, you should have us worry about what you don’t want to.
Definitely something I'd like to do 3-5 steps down the line.
It’s cool to wait but when you start you should dedicate like 9 months to sticking it out and sucking. The thing is most people expect too much too fast. The main goal is to be able to do it for an extended time with a smart person. Everything else flows from that set up.