> Exercise can't come close to making up for how calorie dense most of our 'convenient' packaged food is.
Clearly you don't lift :). Just a joke, and I agree that diet is very important for losing weight, but if you work out well you can live on 4000 calories a day without gaining fat.
The root problem is that we live in a society where people have to compete for jobs where they use a bear minimal of their abilities, jobs that destroy their physical and mental health and make them unhappy, all for very meagre wages. As a society we should be praising and looking forward to automation because it will relieve humans from having to do all of the shitty work, but our society is not structured in a way that allows this. Automation will either be the end of capitalism, or the start of an Elysium-style society.
You are overestimating the complexity and importance of the average job in developed nations. Most of these jobs, like the grunt workforce in banks, can be fairly easily automated. Automation is slowly hitting all sectors in developed nations as well, it is not as prominent because only parts of the required processes can be replaced at a time and these require training for the people that will be working with the new automated 'stack'. That being said, I think it will be 5 - 10 years in the West until most people really start feeling the effects of automation.
I think it would be more accurate to say there are 3 steps in both:
1) Recall the grammar/rules of the output language (for both natural language and formal languages).
2) Form the idea of what it is you want to express in your head using your internal language (usually your first natural language).
3) Encode the idea you have in your mind using the formal rules from step 1.
Step 1 is usually internal and subconscious for natural languages that you can communicate in freely and to an extent this is even the case for other languages and even programming languages.
For your first natural language, step 1 is usually done behind the scenes by your brain automatically, or these rules are already present in your brain in a usable form, and step 3 is trivial because you are just expressing the idea which is already in this language in your mind.
> By what measure? How exactly did you come to that conclusion?
By the fact that you haven't said anything interesting, valid, or insightful at all. You sound like a oblivious soccer mom who thinks cell phones are stupid because they can run out of batteries.
> I absolutely did. Perhaps you should read my comment again.
'I used redhat since I was a little boy.' is not the kind of mention I'm talking about.
> Did you miss the part where I said that I've been using Linux and Macs professionally since early releases of both?
Did you miss the part where this is a useless statement which adds nothing to the discussion?
> Seriously...Are you calling me a liar?
I can't call you a liar because I don't know anything about you, everything you said might be a lie. I am calling you an idiot however, because you managed to demonstrate that quite definitively. :)
> It's certainly not because I don't know how to use Linux or the Mac OS. And I find it hilarious that you've come to that conclusion despite not knowing anything about me
But you told me you've been using linux since you were a little girl playing hop-scotch in the yard :). Surely that's all I need to know?
> Are you really not sure if that is supposed to be a joke or are you just saying that in a passive/aggressive attempt to insult me and/or my opinion?
Yes.
> Windows serves my needs for a desktop workstation better than any other OS.
The key here being 'my needs' and the fact that you seem to be an inexperienced Mac user, you also don't mention other OSes like Linux. Point being, your personal experience and opinion aren't really very valuable in determining which OS is better objectively.
> Windows is by far the best desktop OS in my opinion since I have to fight with it the least to make it do what I want.
So your whole point is 'windows is best, because i dont know how to use other OSes'. You literally haven't stated a single factual and concrete example of why Windows is better than Linux and your point about Mac OS is pretty hilarious.
Not sure how you see that happening, programming in one of the VR environments we have today would be torture. VR might improve enough to make it bearable, but I don't see that happening any time soon.
Clearly you don't lift :). Just a joke, and I agree that diet is very important for losing weight, but if you work out well you can live on 4000 calories a day without gaining fat.