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I often think about a skeuomorphic VR experience. Like a virtual room inside your own head that doesn't cut you off from senses available to your body, at most it'd just be presented in a different way much like the cartoon/trope (though things like hearing/smell/temperature could definitely stay direct). Even then, I'm not sure if certain things like tilt or momentum etc should be represented or if that should just be always-on.

Though for me I'd want it to mostly just be the equivalent of a body tracker (plus mouse/KB/controller emulation) that's hooked up to a single-board-computer that can be more easily swapped out/upgraded etc (or use any normal desktop). As in no internet directly to the brain. Which would be good enough to play all of today's VR games and jump out of it easier than taking off a headset and trackers.

Direct input of a computer screen would probably be easier and good enough most of the time, though. Then again, it might be cool to invite people into your brain house. Also in some cases imagine controlling your body with dials/levers and/or coordinates (and visualized data) but also still feeling it.

body with 8 arms
Neuroplasticity is an interesting thing

Has there been anything even hinting a 2nd pair of arms would be viable? Seeing people with the John Hopkins MPL (Modular Prosthetic Limb) seems like their control isn't as fluid as a normal arm or even what the arm is capable of. Granted, people with them likely have nerve remapping and have long been without that arm, but it seems like it'd work out better than something new.

I mean there is the second thumb thing, but that uses toe movement.

I mean yes, I would want an extended nervous system (hotpluggable for other different bodies, if possible) and some sort of symbiotic systems (bacteria microbiome probably needed for an immune system anyway).

But other than that my meats and autonomic nervous system are defective so jar me up. So long as there's a self-termination sequence or something.

It's for this reason that it seems like a bad idea to ruin this guy's life even as an "example". If this guy has anything happen to him in any way that even hints at despair it'd definitely be a meme and maybe a PR disaster.

There's the obvious one, but imagine "Bowser is homeless because of Nintendo" or "Nintendo is so litigious that Bowser drank himself to death" or "Nintendo's lawyers are so ruthless that Bowser didn't bother with cancer treatment and just decided to die in his apartment". I'm reading this in Dunkey's voice in my head and so should you.

It never gets better, no!
it gets exactly the same...

Maybe it's my brain (and physical medical issues too, energy etc), but I honestly don't understand the appeal of most programming languages. Maybe Python, but I still hate the idea of the language being a bottleneck (I know there are workarounds, but at the very least that also complicates binding support).

I found a somewhat-niche language I like but nothing is at the point where I'd like it to be, and some of that isn't actually a problem with language support itself (particularly given that I want to at least start at a higher-level). Some of the issues would be sidestepped if I just started with 3D, but then I'd probably need to learn Blender (unless there is a more minimal+free lowpoly editor that does vertex colors). Though I don't really have much in the way of ideas either, which is why I also don't feel like making something with a toolkit (I actually made a simple 'adventure book'/interactive fiction reader but didn't feel like doing the writing to develop it further).

Also anybody who wants details just look at my posts as I've typed out this stuff a few times before (also in normal comments for more contexts, but those might be harder to find).

TL;DR: I am 30, or 40 years old and I do not need this.

I almost went to see a doctor in early 2020 (cue but then the funniest thing happened). Lots of issues/complexity there too esp. carless in a lower density USA, guess I'll wait until there are autodocs or doctor worms or something that doesn't need forms/questions/multiple visits/uncertainty etc.

Last year I got the cheapest+lightest ebike with gears that I could find. I went 131 miles on the trail (that's with 250w assist, usually PAS 1 or 2) until the trail shut down a few months after I got it (as mentioned elsewhere). I had noticed some effect even by mile 100 (easier riding mostly, anything else is too nebulous to judge), but being so long without activity and I probably lost all benefit and then some.

My thinking is that there's also physical health issues and other issues that make physical activity less viable. Human travel (walking/biking) would be a big help, or just more time/space/money/comfort/motivation(s) (alternatively: if healthy options were more of a norm/incentive rather than a lucrative market to chase) which is even less likely than changes to zoning/density and infrastructure.

In any case sure, improving someone's life in 1 aspect will provide benefits... but is anyone actually going to help with that or is it going to just result in more of the same platitudes that are already heard? I don't think any study has much chance to create policy in the USA any decade soon.

=That's from experience... I'm in a semi-rural area, started biking right before the trail closed for renovation 6months ago. Still closed, no ETA other than "early 2024".

=Aside from health/personal/travel reasons, maybe it's for a hobby. Getting something out of the activity (money, electric, usable mechanical energy) would be nice if it weren't a problem of cost/storage/loss/logistics etc.

EDIT: And I should say Bowling Alone is in force here too, but again money is probably a big part of that too.

Throwing some water on the title:

“The study was cross-sectional, and thus the observed results could be explained by reverse causality, that is people who are more fatigued and have low mood may be more inactive,” Soini explained. “And there may be unobserved factors that could affect both physical activity and depression, and thus the association observed may not be causal

Actually the headline for the post here isn't even the one used on the article, it's the opening line but stops just before

But physical activity appears to be unrelated to other depressive symptoms, such as suicidal ideation, difficulty concentrating, and sleeping problems

Eerily similar feel as Nighthawks, except no customers and less focus on people so it feels even more desolate.

Based on the title, I thought it was going to be this. (Not that a Waffle House wouldn't be right at home there)

That's a bit of a word salad, but I assume it's just saying that it's a coincidental euphemism. Like if a non-English speaker said "Did you know? The English term melon baller literally translates to breast testicler". It's not like it's a high bar.

I was speaking for my personal situation (I have not left the house since then), the important bit about the trail is about having a destination and not needing to ride a bike on roads (particularly in a rural area w/larger distance).

NYC is a completely different scenario, and being able to walk (w/public transport too) fills that same niche. Also bike lanes and parks.

I also like riding a bike because of health issues, it's lower impact and faster (more airflow plus the trail is mostly shaded). That and I don't want to jog near the road or in a ditch. Also I don't think I could walk as far as I've biked before (11 miles and then back again), even just for the fact there's just something so boring and uncomfortable about walking even a block (at least around here, I don't remember walking in the city being like that, maybe scenery or smooth/level footing helps).

I would say there are a lot of factors. Lack of: money, energy/health, transportation/infrastructure, destinations, time etc.

Anecdotal, but I live in a very small town/village in the US, I'm close to a trail so I got a (weak/cheap+has gears) eBike and I didn't even have it for 4 months before the trail closed for renovations... and 6 months later it still is so I haven't left the house since then. Granted it was more of an activity/utility thing but it was still good mentally and I was still getting into it.

Also see something like Bowling Alone, you probably aren't going to be very social even at a sit-down restaurant as most people probably don't see it as a social thing (aside from maybe the main counter at a bar/diner and even that is subject to unreliable factors).

people need to exercise in order to be healthy, but they generally don’t

Some of the reasons for that are relatively modern. Sedentary jobs and also sedentary commuting (car-centric travel), lack of robust+accessible infrastructure (for instance the trail local to me is still closed from 6months ago, uncertain end). That and most food that isn't made-from-scratch having a ton of added sugar, even things like bread and ketchup that people consider staple foods.

A lot of that goes away when you can just throw money at it (or said benefits are thrown at you). Time and space end up being a result of money too, particularly when money is a limit which is true for most people.

you're telling me a cat fried this ice

what if
elf Vietnam

I don't know, I think a lot of modern life things have broken the capacity/effectiveness for solidarity in a lot of ways. Infrastructure, cost-of-living, surveillance state/police brutality, corporate money/efforts, underhanded politics etc. The worst part is that wins were made in the past but were undone systemically... and without fixing the broken political system first (if that even happens), some things won't change for generations.

At least that's how I feel as a broke shut-in in semi-rural USA... I'm just stuck.

I was reminded of one of my favourite paintings: 'Young Woman on her Deathbed.' There’s a striking contrast between the opulence of the bed and her physical deterioration. While she lies amidst luxury, her life ebbs away in her youth. This image serves as a metaphor for our civilisation

The only information I can see says she's dead in the painting:

The first is in the very originality of its subject: the portrait of a dead young woman. A short text in Latin found in the top right-hand corner on the back of the picture even specifies that it is the portrait of a young woman who died at 25 years of age, and that is was painted two hours after her death in 1621

Source.

Following the metaphor, is civilization already dead too but some of us just don't know it yet while we're being painted in a much less opulent existence?

Also, More risk! More Risk!