Sebastian_Hagen2 comments on The Failures of Eld Science - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Sebastian_Hagen2 12 May 2008 11:51:06AM 7 points [-]

"A short time?" Jeffreyssai said incredulously. "How many minutes in thirty days? Hiriwa?"

"28800, sensei," she answered. "If you assume sixteen-hour waking periods and daily sleep, then 19200 minutes."

I would have expected the answers to be 43200 (30d * 24h/d * 60/h) and 28800 (30d * 16h/d * 60/h), respectively. Do these people use another system for specifying time? It works out correctly if their hours have 40 minutes each.

Aside from that, this is an extremely insightful and quote-worthy post. I have^W^W My idiotic past-selves had a bad tendency to cognitively slow down in the absence of interesting and time-critical problems to solve. Accordingly, I find the hints about how to debug those tendencies very interesting. I find it rather quaint that those people still spend a significant part of their time sleeping, however.