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Is this sarcasm that hackers don't like being healthy or a kind of pun about AI algorithms?

Its not necessarily that they have a problem being healthy, all things considered I would prefer that too.

The problem is that it takes time and is boring. I don't care if it means I live a few years longer since I will be too old and infirm to be able to hack.

The aging and infirmity will come a lot quicker if you don't look out for your health. Being healthy might mean you live say 30 years longer, but that isn't just 30 more years of being infirm, it's say 20 more years of good hack-healthy years and 10 more infirm.

Besides, the energy benefits right now and the impact that has on how much you can hack is far more easily noticed than the potential lifespan differences.

Some hackers still need to learn to put two and two together.

That is to say, fitness + good eating = many years of happy hacking

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