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I'm starting an experiment today. The program is Everyman: 3 20 min naps at midday, the afternoon and the evening with core sleep gradually decreasing, hopefully to a small number of hours. I have early morning lectures and function well at night, so short of being nocturnal decreasing my core sleep looks the best way to be efficient. Will keep this tread updated with results.
Meetup : Cambridge UK
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Meet at the Great Gate if you dont know where the JCR is. Great Gate is on St. John's Street opposite the bookshop "Heffers".
Topic this week: "Is AI the biggest class of x-risk?"
Hopefully this should now be a regular meeting. Join the google group at http://groups.google.com/group/cambridgelesswrong
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There were certainly enough people interested to make this regular. To get involved if you weren't here today join the google group at http://groups.google.com/group/cambridgelesswrong
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Wow I didn't realize this was happening! I'm super busy tomorrow but will try to come for at least some of it. When was the last meetup?
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I'll be there. Also, "Meet at the Great Gate" is a bit uninformative to people who aren't from Cambridge. Meet at the gate on St. John's Street that is pretty much opposite the bookshop "Heffers".
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I would be interested in going along to a meet-up at some point, but am not normally free with less than a week's notice :)
Hopefully future meetups will be on a regular basis so they can be advertised in good time.
Meetup : Cambridge UK
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Meet at the Great Gate if you dont know where the JCR is. {Edit: Great Gate is the gate on St. John's Street that is pretty much opposite the bookshop "Heffers".} There were a good number of people at the last Cambridge UK meet. This could become a regular event if enough people are interested.
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Archimedes's Chronophone
I would speak highly of sharing scientific research with China and India - in the hopes that it would come out as a paean on the benefits of sharing research with other cultures - hopefully leading to a sharing of information with the great Islamic scientists. Most of which are after Archimedes' time... but having a culture-of-sharing in place would be a good way to spark things off.
Archimedes died in 212 BC. Justinian closed the pagan schools and killed of the classical research project in 529 AD. The first book of the Quran was delivered in 610 AD. So sharing with the Islamic scientists (who had all read Aristotle anyway) doesn't make sense.
But an expansion of the communication between places like Alexandria, Athens, Cos etc could be a really good plan.
I've always thought that the middle chapters of Plato's Republic were satire.
Nope. Or at least that is an extremely novel interpretation, as far as I know.
Are you quite sure that classical Greek philosophers were disdainful of empirical phenomena? How do you explain, e.g., Aristotle's Physics?
Also, all his biology. I agree the post is unfair to the ancient Greeks. Aristotle invented observational science. The problem is he didn't think to run any experiments. He just collected stamps, so to speak.
My understanding is not that he "didn't think to" run experiments, rather he actively rejected the doing of experiments. The idea is that one can study nature, study things as they naturally are, because that is them acting in accordance with their inherent properties. But it makes no sense to study things in a lab, in an artificial environment. If I launch something out of a cannon then I disturb it from how it inherently acts. Of course something acting against how it inherently acts is pointless to study. Likewise doing any kind of experiment will only tell you about your experiment (at best) and tell you nothing of the natural state of things.
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Are you tracking your sleep with a Zeo or at least a cellphone accelerometer?
How are you benchmarking your mental state? Memory may take a serious hit, are you using something like Anki which records statistics on forgetting/memory performance? (Working memory and executive function are also issues, so I would suggest dual n-back.)
At the moment I'm tracking sleep with a pen and paper, just started with an Android app. Zeo was totally unknown to me. Thankyou, will investigate this.
My plan is to go by the metric that matters to me, university work. I get enough data there to notice something going wrong. Not the same detail as proper Anki-style benchmarking, however there is an extra variable in my case (resulting in high variance on the day/week scale), that would spoil such results.