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17 Post author: WilliamJames 01 August 2014 10:17AM

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Comment author: gwern 01 August 2014 02:55:14PM *  18 points [-]

I didn't realize Connection Theory was even still around (the last time I remember reading anything about Leverage Research doing anything was when they failed at polyphasic sleep, which was like a year or two ago now?). Good to have some criticism of it, I suppose.

Comment author: Fhyve 04 August 2014 01:19:13AM 2 points [-]

If you want a more precise date for whatever reason, it was right at the end of the July 2013 workshop, which was July 19-23. There were a number of leverage folk who had just started the experiment there.

Comment author: ChristianKl 03 August 2014 12:58:01PM 1 point [-]

(the last time I remember reading anything about Leverage Research doing anything was when they failed at polyphasic sleep, which was like a year or two ago now?)

Is there a written postmortem of that episode available somewhere? I can only find the announcement that they wanted to start polyphasic sleep but not anything about the results.

Comment author: gwern 03 August 2014 03:18:10PM 8 points [-]

Is there a written postmortem of that episode available somewhere?

No. People have been posting comments requesting a postmortem or at least the Zeo data for a long time now, without any public response. Hence, the inference is that (aside from Fallshaw), it was a miserable failure.