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Again you are not understanding the comparison.
I’ve got 20 inch lean arms - I know far more about muscle building and retention than you. I train just as hard to maintain them as I did to get them there.
The people who say “oh it’s easy to maintain” LOL it’s easy to maintain 16 inch arms.
Yeah he’s living in denial.
His skills are slowly eroding. Given that he spent 20 yrs building it up it won’t happen overnight. But the trade off is happening in real time.
“ But I think the overall creativity and originality is a lot lower.
Therein lies the trade off. Your implicit gamble is that you expect machines to continue to get better in the future. What if they don’t?
You do realise most people aren’t in shape right?
The idea that most people have the discipline to keep themselves mentally in check is false. We already know this! Millions and billions of people who spend hrs a day consuming media on platforms such as instagram.
Agreed.
Taste implicitly requires discipline of what one chooses to expose themself to and what not to.
“ I'm not noticing a "cognitive decline" per se, but I do see I'm a lot "lazier"”
These are correlated - it just hasn’t happened in a large enough amount for you to have clearly noticed it yet.
“ However, when looking at muscle, once you have it you don't need to use it as much in order to maintain it”
No.. this depends on how much muscle you have. The appropriate comparison is mass and density of knowledge/understanding vs muscle. There’s not a chance in hell you will retain mass and dense muscle without pushing the body hard. Just in the same way you will not retain very deep understanding of things unless a) you’ve been reciting it for over 10 yrs b) you go back and push the understanding continuously for it to remain as part of your being