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92 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 August 2007 07:39PM

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Comment author: pdf23ds 18 August 2007 06:21:17PM 4 points [-]

Constant, it's odd you should choose the sleep example. What with the prospects of modafinil, which supresses the desire for sleep and aids concentration, being used as an enhancement drug, and with people practicing polyphasic sleep, (admittedly with more limited success,) where you sleep 15 min at a time six times a day, the question of what the effects of this lack of regular sleep causes is actually a very open, and very interesting one. Of course, without these modifications, lack of sleep has obvious ill effects.