Is there any chance I might be sleep deprived if I wake up before my alarm goes off more than 95% of the time?
You might be but this would not be evidence for it. If anything it is slight evidence that you are not sleep deprived - if you were it would be harder to wake up.
Modafinil might lead you down the sleep deprivation road but this ^ would not be evidence for it.
I mentally inserted “even” before “if” in that question.
r/Fitness does a weekly "Moronic Monday", a judgment-free thread where people can ask questions that they would ordinarily feel embarrassed for not knowing the answer to. I thought this seemed like a useful thing to have here - after all, the concepts discussed on LessWrong are probably at least a little harder to grasp than those of weightlifting. Plus, I have a few stupid questions of my own, so it doesn't seem unreasonable that other people might as well.