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o guarantee that she will do it even though she could state what bus she should take to get to her art teacher carolyn took the first bus that came along and had to be rescued at different locations around the city when she was given several opportunities to make the trip alone she is now always accompanied when she travels https www astralcodexten com p your book review great and desperate we may get the chance to see whether that vague prediction is accurate in our lifetimes in any case i note that a lesser version of this symptom afflicts many adults who could be described as children of the magenta line in this case they re faced with their own ambiguity of purpose and thereafter unable to orient and choose a direction the mechanism may be different decision paralysis but the outcome is the same a final related phenomenon that i noticed in myself was when a coworker was describing the physics of a handheld electric cigar lighter he s claiming to have invented inspired heavily by old car cigarette lighters after telling me about a problem he was having with heat warping the insulator he was using to break the circuit i was able to diagnose it for him but i wouldn t have been able to reason my way there without someone externally supplying the boundaries of the problem because i just plain don t care enough about the subject he scaffolded the solution by dealing with all the difficult reality stuff after which it was a fairly simple physics problem heat was conducting into the insulator much faster than it was dispersing into the air the psychological problem is that i m not motivated by the thought of being a mechanical inventor or making money selling cigar lighters to consumers so i can t focus my own brain on the relatively simple sequence of steps from a to b posted in uncategorized 1 comment spartan race retrospective aka the stairmaster olympics posted on august 13 2026 by aeoli pera i did a spartan race edit chat gpt said the biggest thing it would change in my retrospective is i d distinguish spartan is badly designed from spartan is designed for a different conception of fun than mine overview there were a couple thousand people there most of whom were participants we were lucky that the smoke and air quality cleared up for the exact period of time that the race was going on there were a lot of christians there so maybe they had been praying i was a little worried going in that i might enjoy it too much and it might become a new thing for me but fortunately i didn t enjoy it too much one thing gives me pause though these may be my people you don t see a lot of high effort impressive healthy people who lean conservative and christian but somehow this particular sport selects for both at once could be the vague military aesthetic combined with it being very very difficult that s something to consider i did okay my chip time was 1 48 13 which is about 18 minutes longer than i expected but there was also about a 15 minute wait at the sandbag carry because too many people who started were taking long breaks up in the hills some had left their bags up there because they couldn t finish the obstacle that doesn t mean i would have been 15 minutes faster though the waiting in line was a welcome glorious rest there was even shade i entertained myself throughout the course by cracking jokes like that hill was fine why d we come down here if we re just going up another one or the downhill side is much better you guys should try it to the people on the uphill side or mind if i draft off you guys while slogging it uphill highly recommend you have to bring your own fun to something like this overall it was far more difficult than i anticipated i figured it would be a fun little interlude to this year s triathlons since i already train the strength stuff people recommend on the side as proof i could have done an atlas stone twice the size of the men s one and i did the rope climb with just my arms will explain why later but i had very little preparation for the most important challenge the most difficult part by far was the amount of slogging uphill we did i heard someone say there was 1 600 feet of elevation change and that sounds about right because we just kept going up and down the sides of that bloody ski hill over and over that was the first part of the race we said aroo three times and bam ran from the bottom of the ski hill up to the top but that 1 600 feet doesn t include the penalty loops if you failed an obstacle i had to do two of these between which i did another full length of the main ski hill up and down which would add another 200 feet of elevation change at an incline where traversing it on all fours would be appropriate not to mention the simple addition of horizontal distance to the original 5k i joked a couple times but also meant it completely seriously that the best training for the event would have been the stairmaster that didn t come up in any of the reviews advice reddit threads youtube videos or chat gpt conversations i read in preparation maybe this particular event is unique that way on the day after i was most sore in my hips from slogging it up the steep slopes in a sort of side to side swagger with my feet turned outward for better purchase my left wrist is also strained a bit probably from hauling myself up the rope climb with no feet or technique but also maybe from burpees aside from that all the little balancing muscles in my trunk are a little sore from the carries surprisingly no soreness at all in the calves there wasn t much running except the stuttering downhill kind the next day the most sore parts were my quads just above the knee like i d gotten on a bike for the first time in years and gone too hard but after a little massaging and a night of sleep they felt normal tangent complaining about abitrary difficulty and military fitness culture probably the thing i liked about this event the least is that there s definitely a bias toward arbitrary difficulty over fun believe it or not i m not into suffering for its own sake i like a challenge as much as anyone but it s more the climb mount everest type and less the dig a ditch with your hands on the hottest day of the year and no water breaks type as an example of added arbitrary difficulty the course was almost all on sand i understand that s the terrain they have to work with but it felt like insult added to the injury of walking up and down a ski hill for two hours speaking of which it was 100 degrees flat when we left freakin hottest time of the day on the hottest day of the year but that s not the event s fault that s luck of the draw the reason i m bouncing off this arbitrary difficulty is it indicates the middle stages of a purity spiral that is a long term communication problem caused by incompetent leadership whoever is in charge would have had to punish a lot of dissenters before getting to this point there s no way the first criticism was walking 5k on the stairmaster while impressively difficult isn t cool or fun there would have been other lesser criticisms based on the surrounding culture i d guess the response from leadership was if you have a problem with anything it s because you re a pussy who can t handle a little difficulty while untrue the implicit assumption is correct they can run their event however they want if they want to be the stairmaster olympics i hope it works out for everyone involved i ll go back to my own thing as much as i appreciate the easygoing company of people who can get along with others no matter the social hierarchy without criticism generally conservative christians i m just plain not one of them systems thinking is a part of me that doesn t turn off normies make great followers and are easy to coordinate so they ll probably scrape along for a while as the purity spiral runs its course i d also like to reiterate mark rippetoe s criticism of military fitness culture the emphasis on endurance running at the expense of strength has gotten terrible there are two driving forces to this inertia the ability to run used to be very important on the battlefield therefore ye olde officers were selected for their preference for running and they selected future officers for running so they purity spiraled into a running culture with no reference to the real modern combat necessity of strength training it s not 1800 anymore guys if your troops are moving 12 miles in a day on their feet something has gone horribly wrong on the other hand it s very common to sprint for short distances while carrying 100 pounds of gear health insurance is still priced on bmi which therefore represented 20 of the physical fitness test score as recently as a year ago that is it was weighted more heavily than push ups or sit ups running was of course weighted as highly as everything else combined see point 1 above as silly as bmis can often be they do a decent job of predicting heart disease for a large diverse population for the very modest effort of measuring it when your military is a jobs program first and combat ready second and let s be honest this is an excellent financial target for optimization as a consequence endurance is culturally preferred over strength because it maxes out physical fitness test scores whereas squats and deadlifts detract from them how does this translate to the stairmaster olympics the atlas stone was 90 pounds i understand there were reed thin 15 year old boys out there for whom that might represent a moderate challenge but for a grown man never mind a strong man or indeed a real strongman competitor that s your first warmup weight imagine carrying a 45 plate in each hand for ten yards and calling that a test of strength at an extreme fitness event for psychos bro i grab two 45 pound plates at a time every time i unrack the bar every time i lift just because it s faster on the other hand there were some guys out there with truly impressive endurance some of them particularly in the 16 24 crowd were finishing in 45 50 minutes they were jogging up hills while carrying sandbags at the end of the course but could they have done real 300 lb atlas stones probably not why are we coddling the runners they can do burpees like everyone else if they fail the obstacle it s not going to kill them and maybe they d pick up a barbell once in a while and fill out a little i suppose what i m getting at here is this isn t a hybrid athletics event despite outward appearance it s purely endurance the obstacles these are the actually fun part there s a really cool obstacle course racing idea hiding in all that stairmaster olympics nonsense 4 wall just like jumping a chain link fence if you re an old person and haven t tried that in a couple decades you might want to do a couple of box jumps and give it a try to build your confidence you ll find that once you get a little spring back in your legs with the plyometrics it s like riding a bike hurdles same thing as the 4 foot wall just a slightly weirder form factor 6 wall short kings hardest hit did this as a jump assisted muscle up would probably have needed to scramble up with my feet on an 8 or 10 footer z wall this was actually a lot of fun you just have to go slowly enough to play it safe i saw one guy cheat on it and excuse it by announcing this is a voluntary event anyway so who cares that put me off inverted wall pretty easy you just have to get your elbow over there s a weird little pullup adjacent swing you have to do with your body to get there so you might want to watch a youtube about it but if you re coordinated you can figure it out on the spot bucket carry this was by far my least favorite we probably did a quarter mile of extra walking around with those stupid things and i hated every second of it i know some younger guys are into ruck marching as a fitness activity this seems like a military wannabe thing to me but at least the weight is distributed more or less symmetrically i alternated between carrying the bucket on each shoulder and on top of my head like those women who carry jars of water on their heads and it ended up being on my head more often than my shoulders the downside of this strategy was that little pointy bit of plastic on the bottom of the bucket drew some calligraphy on my bald head that ended up getting infected later probably from the sand and will likely leave a scar on the other hand getting a scar is kind of cool hercules hoist i mentioned this wasn t a strength event using my weight instead of my biceps was more a stylistic choice than anything it wasn t very heavy spear throw ah possibly my greatest regret of the whole thing i d watched a video on how to do it and performed perfectly but i needed a single practice throw to correct my theory celing unfortunately there were no practice throws and you only get one shot i threw a perfectly straight dart and hit the exact middle less than a centimeter high of the straw bale if i d had a chance to gauge how little drop there would be in the trajectory i could have missed the burpees and such burpees 30 burpees doesn t sound so too bad from the comfort of my office chair but after running up and down a ski lift a couple times in 100 degree weather and carrying a bucket full of sand for a quarter mile 30 burpees becomes a small ordeal of its own i had to stop three times here s my advice for how to do the spear throw first watch someone explain on youtube the most important advice they ll give you is to take your time grip where the weight of the spear is balanced and throw it like a dart not a baseball then when you re doing it aim by making a heil hitler salute with your left hand pointed at the top edge of the straw bale target and throw your dart with relaxed confidence that ll put it right where you want it to go rolling mud it s just mud but i wish someone had advised me on the importance of keeping my hands clean that killed me on the multi rig think monkey bars except with gymnastics rings i almost bought a waterproof fanny pack for carrying around a little hand towel but decided that was too much investment for a one off event still i could have kept my hands up and out of the muddy water a frame made of bars this was mind bogglingly easy so it was weird how slow most people were going my wife said she saw some people have real trouble with these which reminds me that most people don t grow up playing sports and playing outside i probably take my physical coordination for granted too much if the urbanization rate is 83 how many of these people have never climbed a tree realistically a frame made of cargo net basically identical crawling under a cargo net the hardest part was not hitting my head on the support bars as i plowed through it there were a couple girls who were trying to army crawl under it and they laughed aloud as it lifted off them when i went by on my hands and knees multi rig this is where you swing from ring to ring kinda like monkey bars except wit...