Tag: health

Hoi An, Vietnam: Staying Fit in SE Asia, Digital Nomad Edition

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Staying fit while traveling is one of the hardest things to do. Casual pushups on the hotel floor squeezed in between the bed and the bags gets old after a while.

Before I started my travels, I was minorly obsessed with yoga and spent my evenings after work exercising and relaxing at the gym.

Currently, I am on a month and a half long motorcycle trip through Laos and Vietnam. After three long days of motorcycling over 600 km from 4,000 Islands across the Laos border to Hoi An, Vietnam, my mind and body were eagerly asking for the gym.

We found Son Phong Gym Club a short bicycle ride away from our homestay. It’s an open gym with fans for air flow. At 11 AM in mid-June it wasn’t as hot as I expected, but we definitely got a good sweat in.

How to get in from Cua Dai Road.
Welcome to Son Phong’s Gym Club at 578 Cua Dai Road, Hoi An, Vietnam
Fans for air conditioning – and motivational posters for both men and women.

The gym is clearly more geared for weight lifting and I hesitated as to whether I wanted to spent 50,000 VND since there wasn’t much space for my yoga exercises. Luckily I’m not afraid of a little dirt and added some weights into my yoga practice.

My yoga mat and wheel.
Willem pumping iron – complete with motorcycling sun burn
Warrior Two at the gym.

TLDR; Son Phong Gym Club – What and Where

Air Conditioning Fan Only
Cash Cost 50,000 VND
Budget Cost a little over $2 USD
Weights 8/10
Cardio None
Stretching None

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We Need an Ecosystem for Artificial Intelligences

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A few months ago Elon Musk made headlines saying that Artificial Intelligence (AI) was akin to “summoning the demon”. Now Bill Gates joins Stephen Hawkings and Elon Musk in warning against the dangers of developing AI.

I believe that we need an ecosystem of AIs that can check each other, similar to the way that we have a healthy set of gut bacteria that keep bad bacteria at harmless levels.

In the same way that it is impossible to completely eradicate bad bacteria from our gut, I do not believe that human regulatory agencies can stop a rogue AI from developing.

What we can do, is design an ecosystem for AI that works in our favor. An ecosystem of pro-human AIs that experience emotions the way we do (minus the bad emotions), so that when the rogue AI’s do develop, and they will, we’ve got intelligences who want to fight for us.

As humans (as parents or ancestors to this new form of intelligence), we run the risk of becoming obsolete. The question is how we handle that risk, or face that reality.

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Why Coherence?

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It became apparent to me, in my life back on the East Coast, that the sum of my parts was not greater than the whole. In fact, sometimes some of my parts subtracted from the whole.

My mind, my body, and my livelihood were not working together. They weren’t coherent, and they were pulling each other apart.

This is the story of how I was forced to face the music, and it wasn’t that bad.

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