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Is there going to be an after-party open to the "public"?
Effective Altruism Summit is One Month Away
This is a followup to Ben's post announcing the 2014 EA Summit.
The Effective Altruism Summit is now exactly one month away.
This year, 175 EAs will gather in Berkeley, CA for a two-day conference -- the largest gathering of people in the EA movement to date.
We still have spots left, and we are especially interested in having people who are new to the movement and aren't yet working on something related to EA full-time. The event is a great place to meet everyone who is serious about EA, learn a whole lot about the different projects people are working on, build friendships, and start collaborations.
There will be people there from:
- The Center for Applied Rationality
- GiveWell
- GiveDirectly
- The Machine Intelligence Research Institute
- The Future of Humanity Institute
- The Life You Can Save
- 80,000 Hours
- Giving What We Can
- Leverage Research
-- and others.
The event costs $600, but we can offer discounted tickets to people who can't pay full price. If you are interested in coming but money is a barrier, please don't be shy -- let us know through the form on the website and we will do everything we can to get you a spot. If you can pay full price, you'll be helping to cover other EAs. None of the organizations involved will profit from the event.
You can get more info and register to attend by filling out the form on the summit website.
The Retreat, mentioned in Ben's previous post, is full. If you note interest in the retreat on your Summit registration, we'll let you know if any space opens up last-minute.
Questions? Email effectivealtruismsummit@gmail.com for fastest response, or post in this thread for public response.
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Effective Altruism Summit 2014
Yes, but probably not advertised publicly. It will be Sunday evening. Details will be announced at the event, so ask someone who is there if you aren't.
What's "the diet"?
I just meant the schedule. I've taken to calling it a diet since I'm avoiding it sortof the way people do with food.
I wondered why Burning Man should disrupt polyphasic sleep except possibly by intoxication. But what I get from your earlier post and www.polyphasicsociety.com is that polyphasic has the following disadvantages:
- requires strict sleeping patterns
- requires discipline to keep the pattern
- limited task and schedule flexibility
Obviously you need a job and a family and friends where this is no problem. I have thought about trying DC1 which is the only option that might work with four children.
I wonder what the consequences of falling out of polyphasic may be. From my own sleep deprivation 'experiments' I'd guess:
- Involuntarily sleeping much longer than planned out of order, thus completely wrecking you schedule.
- Being tired and drowsy for a time thus being unusually unproductive and potentially unreliable.
From your graph I'd guess that falling out of polyphasic (accidentally or not) takes a week to recover. If such accidents happen too often (and once a month may be enough) all the disturbances this causes (missed deadlines, bad quality) may quickly eat up all the nominal efficiency gains from more awake hours.
This all assumes that the saved sleep has no other positive benefits. There might be:
- physical regeneration
- subconscious learning (there are some posts on LW about the habit to reflect the lessons of the day before sleep)
With these considerations in mind I decided to stay with my sleep rhythm (0:00 to 6:30). I don't want to risk long time health effects ('the candle that burns brighter burns half as long').
The main thing I took out of this are the recommendations about night lighting: http://www.polyphasicsociety.com/polyphasic-sleep/adaptation/night-lighting/
The graph is a little misleading on how long it takes to recover, I'd say, since the falling out part was due to being quite sick. There is also an important additional note, which is that on E3 so far, I'm getting way less REM than I used to get with normal sleep (see plot of my baseline data below). As I eventually concluded with Uberman, it really seems like the standard E3 schedule has no possible way of giving me the amount of REM that I used to get (over two hours per night on nights when I would sleep 8-8.5 hours and feel well rested), so I'm going to test a diet that will take 5.5 hours rather than 4, but will have a legitimate chance of matching my baseline numbers for REM and SWS (slow wave sleep). This would beat my normal sleep time goal of 8 hours by 2.5 hours a day, but would include lots of naps, so it's yet to be seen if it is worth it. It will come down to whether I turn out to be able to take advantage of several 30-60 minute waking periods that are part of the rotation I'm going to try.
What are you using to measure your REM/light/deep sleep?
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Polyphasic Sleep Seed Study: Reprise
Small correction: I actually found Everyman 3 to be a very doable schedule at Burning Man. It's desirable to stay up really late since lots of neat stuff happens at night, and it's desirable to not need to sleep past 10am since it gets very hot. So a 3 hour core from 6-9am plus a few opportunistic naps in the shade is an excellent solution. Both Cathleen (who runs operations at Leverage) and I were on duty supporting Paradigm, the effective altruist camp, most of the week, and I think it's fair to say the quality of experience the camp achieved was due in no small part to the long hours we were able to put in.
The hard part has actually been sticking to the diet after the event, due to being quite sick for a while.
Looking forward to publishing data as soon as we have the time. As a preview, since it doesn't take any time, here's a plot of my sleep since starting the experiment. The no data part is Burning Man, which was a similar distribution to the period right before it.
Weekly Marin, CA meetup
The Less Wrong Marin group has been happening for over a month now, and can be declared a regular meetup. Our typical meeting includes some version of dinner at Nevin's house, 665 Northern Ave, Mill Valley on Tuesdays at 6:30pm. Each meetup is announced on the Bay Area Less Wrong mailing list.
The group size is usually around six. This is what we look like right now:
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Rationality Quotes: January 2011
The new XKCD is highly relevant.
Okay, middle school students, it's the first Tuesday in February.
This means that by law and custom, we must spend the morning reading though the Wikipedia article List of Common Misconceptions, so you can spend the rest of your lives being a little less wrong.
The guests at every party you'll ever attend thank us in advance.
Subtext: I wish I lived in this universe.
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Request: if this happens again in subsequent years, could you announce the dates earlier? I would have liked to go, but have booked a family vacation that week, and I know at least one other person in the same situation.
Sorry about that. We will do our best to announce further in advance, since we really would like to accommodate people who are booked very far ahead of time.