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🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to Get Fit Guy. This is Kevin Don. |
0:07.8 | This week I'm basically going to take carte blanche to just talk about whatever I want to. |
0:13.6 | It's been a while since I went off on a total tangent, but here we go. |
0:19.1 | Regular listeners will know that I'm studying an M.A. in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, |
0:25.1 | but more specifically, most of my elective courses are at the Edinburgh Futures Institute |
0:31.3 | and the Centre for Technomoral Futures. So what does that mean? Well, it's a study of the morality and value of future |
0:40.7 | technology, AI, data, algorithms, robots, post-humans, the impact of globalization on biodiversity, |
0:50.1 | and so on. And the connection here to fitness is the environment. |
0:56.0 | You know, if we have some pet fish in a home aquarium |
1:00.0 | and we don't do what's required to look after the water in the tank, |
1:04.0 | then the fish become unwell or even worse. |
1:07.0 | The water is their environment. |
1:10.0 | And the same goes for us. How many |
1:12.8 | bicep curls do you think that you'd need to do in order to stop the polar |
1:17.8 | ice caps melting or how many ab crunches to save future generations from |
1:23.5 | forest fires and flash floods due to changes in global climate. |
1:28.3 | So our own fitness, in terms of our ability to interact with the environment, |
1:34.3 | very much depends on there being an environment for us to interact with. |
1:38.3 | This past week, I saw someone I know who doesn't have an insignificant following on social |
1:45.5 | media posting to his followers about how they can free up more time live a life of |
1:51.8 | freedom make life easier by having an LLM for those not in the know this stands |
1:58.0 | for large language model the most well known of which is chat GPT, |
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