wedrifid 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: 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'.