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An alternative, courtesy of Anders Sandberg (via Kaj Sotala), is to set your alarm to ring two hours before your desired wake-up time, take one or two 50mg caffeine pills when it rings, and go back to sleep immediately thereafter. When you wake two hours later, getting out of bed shouldn't be a problem. Details here.
Does that work for you?
I tried it only a few times and didn't notice any clear effects. So as far as I can tell, no, it doesn't work for me.
Have you tested this intervention on yourself more systematically?
I'm currently trying it out on a loose alternating-day basis; if it seems to be working, I may upgrade to blinding & randomization.
EDIT: it does correlate with earlier wake up, so I've upgraded to randomization; the blinding didn't work out because the caffeine pills have too detectible a flavor.