AI and stairs

Thursday 7/16/26

I'll search all kinds of things online. Sometimes they're things I know, but I want to see what comes up anyway. As we erase the idea of humanness from the world, and of course intelligence, literacy, effort, skill, vision, and even thinking at the most basic of levels, we attempt to rewrite reality so that stupidity, illiteracy, sloth, having no abilities, echo chambers, and never thinking are positives.

This better serves the masses. Each of us has become a person-sized representative of the masses. In each person is the cultural, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual DNA of the masses. It's less a double helix structure at those levels than it is a couple of Popsicle sticks glued together. There are very few self-contained individuals and strivers, never mind people of true greatness. Each one of us represents and houses the worst of the rest, with next to nothing left over. We're almost exactly the same. Think the same, talk the same, use the exact same word modules because we have no words of our own, no thoughts of our own, no selves that are our own.

I typed in, "Is it healthy to run thousands of stairs every day" on Google. You now get an AI answer--which is almost always wrong. Were you to, for example, type in a question about the Beatles, the answer given to you by AI would likely be incorrect. Not that people would know the difference, because people don't know much about anything, do they? Never mind are they experts in anything. But I know. What a cross that has come to be in this world.

I jump past the AI answer, which you can't stop from being there. It's like mind rape. You give no consent. You are AI-raped. That is the methodology. Force this on people. Yes, you can do a single search where you shut off the AI results, but you'd have to do that for every single search if you wished to never have AI results pop up. And because people won't read one more word than they think they have to, they aren't going further than that initial block of AI-generated text.

Here are the AI results for the above query. I don't know...kind of seems like running up and down a Monument every day would be excellent for your health and fitness, no? But in this increasingly AI-ed world, and this world of inversion--where we seek to replace effort with laziness, intelligence with stupidity, humor with witlessness, greatness with mediocrity, you're told that go up fifty stairs a day is better for your health, your fitness, your mortality, than, you know, working out.

You know what fifty stairs is? If you live on the third floor of a building and you walk up to your apartment, you've gone more than fifty stairs. So, you doing that once a day--and no more--is better for your health, your heart, your fitness, than me running up and down the stairs of the Bunker Hill Monument. Could be you going down those stairs the once to retrieve the food you had delivered because you were too lazy to walk a few blocks for it.

How dumb do you have to be in order to believe that? How much do you have to want to believe that in order to believe that?

The endless stupidity, the endless inversions, the endless avoidance of reality. Look at this below: an extreme endurance event. Every day of my life I do an extreme endurance event according to the AI results. Huh. Who knew. It takes a half hour to run 3000 stairs in the Bunker Hill Monument. Give or take. That's an extreme endurance event? I guess I should be proud of myself.

I'll clarify something else here, too: stairs are easy on your legs, if you're someone looking to start doing them and need another reason. Your joints. That was part of the appeal for me from the start.

I mentioned the other day that I didn't exercise much in my twenties and thirties, but I would run on flat ground. We're not talking huge amounts. Three miles. Running on flat ground is worse on your legs, knees, joints, feet. I have flat feet and that hasn't ever been a problem with the stairs. I've never had a leg issue running stairs. I've never had pain. You can have soreness, obviously. That's your muscles. Your calves especially. But that's different than pain and it's not a longstanding issue. It goes away as your muscles get up to speed. Muscle soreness is nothing. Simply part of the process. It's good for you.

Note how the AI answer and "information" enables someone who never wants to do anything. This is what a person loath to budge wants to hear. Climbing fifty stairs a day is some "massive" achievement. Those fifty stairs a day will be the reason you "achieve elite fitness."

Elite fitness.

That's funny. Do nothing but walk up fifty stairs a day and see what you look like over the years.

No, running thousands of stairs every single day is generally not healthy and carries a high risk of overtraining and injury, though stair climbing itself is an exceptionally beneficial exercise. While climbing 50 to 100 stairs daily provides massive cardiovascular advantages, multiplying that into the thousands daily shifts the workout from a health-boosting routine into an extreme endurance event.

The Risks of "Thousands" of Daily Stairs

• Severe Joint Strain: Running upstairs forces you to lift your entire body weight on one leg repeatedly. Running down thousands of stairs to repeat the loop subjects your knees, ankles, and hips to intense, repetitive impact that can accelerate joint wear or worsen conditions like osteoarthritis. 

• Overuse Injuries: Doing this daily without rest will likely lead to patellar tendonitis (jumper's knee), shin splints, Achilles tendonitis, or plantar fasciitis. 

• Overtraining Syndrome: Chronic high-intensity output without recovery drops your immunity, disrupts your sleep, and degrades your muscle tissue instead of building it.

The Healthier, Science-Backed Alternative

You do not need an extreme volume to achieve elite fitness. Medical and sports science suggest a much safer approach:

• The "Sweet Spot" Volume: Studies from institutions like Tulane University show that climbing just 50 to 100 stairs a day (about 5 to 10 flights) can slash your risk of cardiovascular disease by 20%. 

• Incorporate Rest Days: If you want to do high-volume stair workouts (e.g., 1,000+ stairs), treat it like a heavy leg day. Limit it to 2 to 3 times per week to allow your muscles and tendons to repair. 

• Walk Up, Take the Elevator Down: To save your knees from eccentric impact stress, run or power-walk up the stairs, and use an elevator or a slow, careful walk to come back down. 

• Use a Stepmill: If you want the cardiovascular intensity of thousands of stairs without the joint-crushing descent, use a gym stair-climber machine (stepmill) which provides continuous upward movement.

In our world, everything good is now treated like it's bad. Everything gets worse.

"Joint-crushing descent."

That's dramatic, huh? Pass me another box of Oreos instead!!!!!!!!! I went up fifty stairs today! Oreos! Oreos! Oreos!"

This isn't even really about the physical. People are far likelier to physically move than they are to think. You have to move some, don't you? Need to walk to the bathroom unless you keep an empty milk carton on the couch. Have to walk up those three flights of stairs to get back inside where the Oreos are.

Whereas, our world is set up now so that you don't have to think at all. Not even fifty stairs' worth of thinking.

Put down those Oreos, run up some stairs, use your brain.