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BrienneYudkowsky comments on Polyphasic Sleep Seed Study: Reprise - Less Wrong Discussion

40 Post author: BrienneYudkowsky 21 September 2013 10:29PM

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Comment author: BrienneYudkowsky 25 September 2013 05:22:30AM 6 points [-]

I made the post despite not having detailed quantitative information yet because people are curious. I made a post before promising the results of a very high VOI experiment, so people kept sending me messages along the lines of, "Ok, the month of the experiment is over! What happened?" and I didn't want them to lose interest or think the whole thing had been abandoned. I think this post was fairly well received because it was effective at reassuring people that the good thing they care about continues to exist and be good. Further, it's provided evidence that I'm the kind of person who does things when she says she will (I said I'd do the experiment, and I did it), which raises their confidence in eventually seeing the full results (because I've said I'd provide those in somewhere around three months).