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Comment author: Pablo_Stafforini 09 September 2013 09:22:59PM *  10 points [-]

  • Not taking the wisdom of nature seriously and, in particular, failing to appreciate the possibility that a considered intervention (e.g. polyphasic sleep) might do more harm than good.

  • Failing to do all sorts of things that I would have enjoyed merely because they involved some trivial inconvenience.

Comment author: PECOS-9 09 September 2013 11:08:58PM 7 points [-]

Failing to do all sorts of things that I would have enjoyed merely because they involved some trivial inconvenience.

Can you be more specific (if you don't mind sharing)?

Comment author: Pablo_Stafforini 22 September 2013 09:22:33AM 0 points [-]

This recent post by Ben Kuhn describes in more detail the phenomenon I was hinting at.

Comment author: lukeprog 18 September 2013 02:16:20AM 6 points [-]

I've heard a few people say that polyphasic caused them lasting harm. Was that the case for you?

Comment author: Pablo_Stafforini 22 September 2013 09:25:20AM 1 point [-]

No. I haven't tried polyphasic sleep, which I mentioned merely as an example of the perils of ignoring the "wisdom of nature" heuristic. (I now realize that my wording didn't make this sufficiently clear.)

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