Personally I lean much more towards average utilitarianism as opposed to total
You should check out this post and its related posts. (also here, and here). Which is to say, there is a whole wide world out there of preferences - why should I have one or two small options?
couldn't you do it more efficiently with ems?
Both/and.
r/Fitness does a weekly "Moronic Monday", a judgment-free thread where people can ask questions that they would ordinarily feel embarrassed for not knowing the answer to. I thought this seemed like a useful thing to have here - after all, the concepts discussed on LessWrong are probably at least a little harder to grasp than those of weightlifting. Plus, I have a few stupid questions of my own, so it doesn't seem unreasonable that other people might as well.