lavalamp comments on How to test your mental performance at the moment? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lavalamp 30 November 2009 03:23:58AM 1 point [-]

Intelligence returns to normal if not better (my subjective opinion) once completely adapted and no longer sleep deprived. That takes around a month.

I'm still experimenting with different schedules; I may post something here on it eventually in the anti-akrasia category, as the posts here were one of the things that motivated me to try it in the first place.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 30 November 2009 10:28:09AM 1 point [-]

Intelligence returns to normal if not better (my subjective opinion) once completely adapted and no longer sleep deprived. That takes around a month.

I wouldn't believe my own subjective estimate on such things, only something objectively verifiable counts. It's too intangible, and a month is too long to accurately remember your own experience, to boot through a lens of what is possibly a different mental condition.

Comment author: lavalamp 30 November 2009 10:01:35PM 0 points [-]

I got very familiar with what it feels like to be at a particular level of of sleep deprivation in the course of adaptation, so I think my subjective opinion there is probably not so far off, but I agree I can't really expect anyone else to have much faith in it.

I've attended one go tournament since I started, and I achieved a result better than my last few tournaments. OK, and I just beat my record at freerice.com. Other than that it will be difficult to come up with good data, as I've never taken an IQ test in my life. I should have taken an online one at least before I started, but I didn't think of it until it was too late, and I don't really trust the online ones anyway