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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 July 2012 02:45:34AM 5 points [-]

Aluminum foil. Use a gluestick to put it over your bedroom windows. Now there is darkness, and you can sleep. This made a huge quality-of-life difference to me, and I felt very silly for not doing it 10 years earlier. (A sleep mask, which I previously used, was not nearly as good a solution.)

Comment author: jaibot 05 July 2012 09:50:51PM 11 points [-]

This probably occurs to most people, but to be explicit about the downsides:

  • signalling possible drug production
  • lack of sunlight, which can (1) serve as an optical alarm clock (2) improve mood (3) be aesthetically pleasing
  • I imagine that most implementations will not be aesthetically pleasing to most people
  • Likely to signal a lack of socialability to anyone who should have occasion to visit your bedroom - cowering from sunlight is among the most oft-cited "antisocial nerd" tropes.
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