Carrie comments on When Willpower Attacks - Less Wrong

17 Post author: jimrandomh 03 October 2009 03:36AM

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Comment author: Carrie 07 October 2009 01:28:48PM 2 points [-]

I think that has less to do with willpower and more to do with the way that most of the developed world has been crazy on sleep-dep since the invention of the electric light.

Comment author: randallsquared 07 October 2009 03:49:22PM 1 point [-]

Hm. One point in favor of that possibility is that both of the people I know closely who've done this spent virtually all of their waking hours when it was dark out, during these periods.

Comment author: CronoDAS 07 October 2009 06:17:35PM *  0 points [-]

And the alarm clock. I'd like to go back in time and kill the evil genius that invented the alarm clock. I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate HATE them!

(And no doubt the evil genius's evil twin contributed the snooze button.)