shminux comments on Seed Study: Polyphasic Sleep in Ten Steps - Less Wrong

31 Post author: BrienneYudkowsky 11 July 2013 07:17AM

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Comment author: shminux 11 July 2013 05:06:04PM 12 points [-]

I hope none of you polyphasers drive to school/work, or we are likely to be a few rationalists short by the time this experiment is over.

Comment author: James_Miller 11 July 2013 05:28:04PM *  21 points [-]

Not necessarily if you weight the number of rationalists by how long each is awake.

Comment author: wedrifid 11 July 2013 09:54:26PM 13 points [-]

Not necessarily if you weight the number of rationalist by how long each is awake.

You also have to weight the quality of their thinking they do while awake, either for the same reason you are multiplying by hours awake or simply because lower quality thinking will push some accross the threshold of qualifying as 'rationalist'.

Comment author: Puredoxyk 27 July 2013 02:00:59PM 2 points [-]

I would hope that I'm not the only source that insists on limiting or eliminating driving for at least the few really hard days of an Uberman adaptation, yeah. Also, you know, don't perform surgery or operate giant cranes. Just in case we needed to add that. ;)