Lumifer comments on The mechanics of my recent productivity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 09 January 2014 07:04:06PM 6 points [-]

it would be more effective to get more sleep.

If you are sleep-deprived getting more sleep is very effective at raising your performance. If you already get enough sleep, sleeping more won't help and might even decrease it.

Comment author: chairbender 09 January 2014 08:00:03PM *  0 points [-]

I think you may have misread what I wrote. I pointed out in my original comment that, from what I've read, 7.5 hours seems to be not enough sleep. So it would follow that getting more sleep would increase performance. I know that excessive sleep also causes problems, but that's clearly not relevant here.

Comment author: Lumifer 09 January 2014 08:11:20PM *  11 points [-]

from what I've read, 7.5 hours seems to be not enough sleep

Sleep requirements are individual and vary widely. The 7.5 hours is just the mean of a fairly wide distribution.

As a data point, I live in a house with someone who requires about two hours of more sleep per night than I do.