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  1. Portrait of Onur Solmaz

    Enough data could make us digitally immortal

    @onusoz · /2026/08/30 · View on
    It is such an interesting thing to collect your own data My data trove contains not only workouts but 2.5 years of random conversations, ideas, jokes From this, I can create a map of my mood, psychological state, personality changes over all this time If I record enough of myself, I can even learn an AI myself In a way, we don't even need to develop good enough brain scan tech to be immortal (which I was anticipating in my lifetime, as I wrote 2 years ago in another HN front page post solmaz.io/why-should-anyone-boot-you-up) We just have to record enough data of ourselves, to capture the whole distribution, if that were ever possible We believe we precious human beings are infinitely complex creatures, with infinite capacity for action Maybe over a long time... But at any given time t, we are finite, and we are bound by a finite inner world and distribution That means a lot of the celebrities whose every moments are recorded are already immortal. Maybe not their inner world, but their external persona And e.g. if @bryan_johnson is recording is private life in such a way as well, then he might already be the first digital immortal, inner and outer persona
    @onusoz ·
    I have performed a distillation attack on my PERSONAL TRAINER Since more than 2.5 years, I have recorded over 300 of our sessions, each up to 90 minutes long Why would I do that? Because he is a kinesthetic genius from the Caucasus who developed his own training doctrine He loves helping people become fitter and freer in their bodies, counting every rep and cheering sincerely when they unlock a new skill And now both he and I would like to share it with the rest of the world To begin with, I used Whisper+pyannotate to automatically transcribe all our sessions and used LLMs to extract all the knowledge He taught me over 100 movements and spoke about over 100 topics over the course of 2.5 years You can browse and read all of them here, for free: mirzamovement.com/wiki/ But again, why all this? 1.5 years ago, I wrote an article called "Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale" which went to the Hacker News front page It was sort of a meme, but it reflected a reality that I felt very deeply: Having a sedentary job which only requires me to use my brain is shortening my life and reducing my life quality by a lot Not only mine, but of hundreds of millions, soon billions of people who will spend hours just talking to AIs whole day for their careers It is also a fact that personal physical education and training is close to nonexistent for the average person There are billions of people who could live much healthier lives, just by exercising in the room they already have. But they just don't know how. And there is no system to teach them how, effectively at scale 1 on 1 personal training should be universal and free, with AI We must have reps and sets too cheap to meter An expert AI PT that sees and corrects your every move, that counts for you. Created by people that care, like us. Unlike a franchise gym that just wants to get your subscription and sell you protein powder Once everybody can taste good AI personal training for free, the demand for human personal trainers will explode and whole fitness industry will see unprecedented growth That is one of my life's goals, and I will make that happen one day. Today is the first step My trainer is Orkhan Mirza, a.k.a. @JashinJashua here and on Instagram, and I am nerdonbars on Instagram The wiki and more are available here: mirzamovement.com Let me know what you think!