jimrandomh comments on Polyphasic Sleep Seed Study: Reprise - Less Wrong

40 Post author: BrienneYudkowsky 21 September 2013 10:29PM

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Comment author: jimrandomh 23 September 2013 11:00:51PM 3 points [-]

Thanks for doing this; I, too, am really looking forward to the cognitive-test data.

I'm curious/concerned about the illness you mentioned. A lot of the argument against polyphasic sleep is that there may be poorly-documented negative health effects, and immunology is an area where downsides are likely to be found. Some infectious illnesses happen randomly, but it could be that polyphasic sleep is a risk factor and it would be bad to miss that, so investigating (or at least thoroughly reporting) things like that seems important.