Want to live an extra 5 to 10 years? Adopt this habit, study suggests

(Adults need at least 150 to 300 minutes of moderate aerobic activity or 75 to 150 minutes of vigorous aerobic exercise per week, according to the World Health Organization)

"Low physical activity (PA) levels are associated with increased mortality. Improved measurement has resulted in stronger proven associations between PA and mortality, but this has not yet translated to improved estimates of the disease burden attributable to low PA."

"If all individuals were as active as the top 25% of the population, Americans over the age of 40 could live an extra 5.3 years (95% uncertainty interval 3.7 to 6.8 years) on average."

They found that being as active as the least active quartile of the population would lead to a 5.8-year loss in life expectancy for men and women, bringing the expectancy at birth down from around 78 to around 73.

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Meta’s AI Abundance

"Generative AI puts this process on steroids: advertisers can provide Meta with broad parameters and brand guidelines, and let the black box not just test out a few pieces of creative, but an effectively unlimited amount."

"Meta is already highly reliant on machine learning for its ads product: right now an advertiser can buy ads based on desired outcomes, whether that be an app install or a purchase, and leave everything else up to Meta."

"Meta’s AI-driven upside is independent from XR becoming the platform of the future. What is different now, though, is that the likelihood of XR mattering feels dramatically higher than it did even six months ago."

Generative AI is Meta (and Amazon's and Apple's) opportunity to wrest search away from Google. Meta makes an absolute killing with ads by dominating much of the internet now, usurping the throne from google.

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On legibility

"There’s an under-appreciated connection between two of this week’s big political stories - Starmer’s promise to 'crack down hard' on benefit fraud; and the assisted dying bill."

"Legibility - the ability to read 'deserving' and 'undeserving' cases and to distinguish between them - is difficult. Achieving it comes at a cost. Perhaps too high a cost."

"In a better world we’d not need the assisted dying bill. Instead, when people had helped loved ones to die out of despair at their suffering the police would simply turn a blind eye."

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