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Comment author: username2 14 December 2015 10:41:25PM 0 points [-]

I'm intersted in polyphasic sleep.

Wikipedia notes:

In order to gain more time awake in the day, Buckminster Fuller reportedly advocated a regimen consisting of 30-minute naps every six hours. The short article about Fuller's nap schedule in Time in 1943, which also refers to such a schedule as "intermittent sleeping," says that he maintained it for two years, and further notes "he had to quit because his schedule conflicted with that of his business associates, who insisted on sleeping like other men."[17]

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"Dymaxion Sleep". Time Magazine. 1943-10-11. Archived from the original on 2013-10-08. Retrieved 2013-12-27.Closed access

The Time archive isn't accessible via SciHub. Can someone gave me the article through another way?

Comment author: btrettel 25 December 2015 09:35:48PM 0 points [-]

My opinion of polyphasic sleep as a way to reduce sleep requirements is negative, so I recommend not tracking this down.

Comment author: username2 25 December 2015 09:43:55PM 0 points [-]

Given that the Wikipedia article about polyphasic sleep recounts the story, it's important for people debunking polyphasic sleep to respond to the story of Buckminster Fuller. That's easier when the article is available.

Comment author: btrettel 26 December 2015 03:33:30PM *  0 points [-]

The article is more of historical interest to me. I don't think Buckminster Fuller's claims are more trustworthy than those of other people, and from what I've read they aren't any different from what others claim. So the basic criticisms seem to hold against his claims. And the evidence for polyphasic sleep is quite bad, so bad in fact that I am surprised and disappointed that so many rationalists take it seriously. I suppose it comes from wishful thinking, but I'm not sure. (My intention is not to be mean to people who take these ideas seriously, but rather to check if there's anything I'm missing. It seems to me that I know considerably more about sleep science than polyphasic sleep proponents, though I'm still not an expert.)

Google Books shows a small part of the article.

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