Learning Tai Chi in the way that it was meant to be learned means cultivating not just your external body but also your spiritual self, mental wellness, and internal organs as well.

So, if you want the best of both worlds (to learn Tai Chi AND avoid modern China's soft-power influence), sign up to a school that traces its roots back to Taiwan from that era.

Many of these 19th century masters cross-trained in all of the related arts from that era and proceeded to carry down these traditions to their students.

Therefore, the original movements can, indeed, still be found in the world, and you can still learn them. You just won't see any of these movements displayed in Hollywood (because they're not flashy enough for the big screen), or in an MMA ring (because they're not designed for sport fighting), or through any school or lineage that remains or currently exists in China post-Cultural Revolution (because all of the true practictioners fled to Taiwan and elsewhere).

But you're right in that it doesn't AT ALL look like the Tai Chi that most of the world practices today. Many of the movements and forms have kept the same names... but they are trained and performed VERY differently from what most people would recognize.

(1) https://linnatural.com/about-our-martial-arts-school-in-coro... (2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Lutang

Full disclosure: I mentioned Grandmaster Lin specifically because I've met, witnessed, and learned from him directly having attended seminars that he's run in the past.

> Moreover, because testosterone revs up oil glands and hair follicles – and partly converts them to estrogen – it can also bring about acne, balding and even some breast tissue growth.

You gotta love ironic consequences.

It turns out that all you need to do to become stronger and more "manly" is to exercise, sleep well, and maintain a nutritious diet.

Men who try to shortcut all that by taking extra T may find themselves enhancing the very physical traits that they're seeking to avoid.

It won't stop the Slop-pocalypse, but at least, then, we're funneling some of that money back to ourselves.

If a person's going to buy some vibe-coded slop about me, at least let it be my vibe-coded slop about me.

I do wonder about what would happen if the LLM were to hallucinate negative facts about the person.

Like, if some asshat vibe-wrote a biography about me that claimed that I once kicked a sack full of puppies as a child, would I be able to sue the "author" for defamation? At least, would it even be worth it to pursue?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0TMtY_xdgU [video|35:29]

The video's given timestamps:

- 0:00 - intro

- 2:49 - the initial idea video

- 4:35 - "am I crazy for thinking this is weird" tiktok

- 7:35 - comments

- 8:01 - creative people LIKE being creative!

- 10:30 - kyles first video

- 12:32 - comments

- 15:04 - anianne "am i overreacting?" tiktok

- 17:34 - comments | THE DOLORES UMBRIDGE ARGUMENT

- 23:24 - kyle's argument continues...

- 27:26 - victoria aveyard enters the comments!

- 29:06 - he apologizes but why...

- 30:04 - the "apology"

- 32:42 - aniannes final response

- 34:02 - closing thoughts

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48746999

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No individual person can be the superhero that saves the day on everyone's behalf. But what we can do is provide what little help or insight that we have, and then pass the issue along to others.

Perhaps all it means is that you end up doing what OP did: the "deeper" research that you mentioned plus a little post on Hacker News or elsewhere.

Even if nothing comes of it in the end, at least you'll have tried.

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I ask because there are certainly lighter martial arts programs out there that even folks with medical and/or mental issues can still do and gain benefit from them.

AI Slop article.

I've heard of "hierarchy-less" company structures being attempted before. I've also heard that each and every one of those attempts always ended up with hierarchies anyway, only now they became "shadow" hierarchies, unofficial and undocumented. Because that's just how human nature works. Not everyone can stay locked in on what every else is doing while still also keeping up with their own responsibilities, so other people get deferred to instead.

Is there happy middle-ground that can be found here? Is there any research out that offers tree-less company structures that might actually work in the real world?