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This would have very negative effects though, as the brain dumps waste during sleep. If industry/military regularly would force people to be awake, who knows wh
by trebor 11y ago
This would have very negative effects though, as the brain dumps waste during sleep. If industry/military regularly would force people to be awake, who knows what would happen to their health? Mental illness rates for Alzheimer's, Dementia, &c would likely increase.
Pretty certain it'd be handy in certain military situations. But I could also see easy abuse in industries like computer game design. Imagine if EA could force you to stay awake to shorten their deadlines.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoYes exactly - imagine all that. Because its all going to happen. This is a watershed moment, with new opportunities both to help people, and to abuse them in new ways!
- anigbrowl 11y agoThe military already does this by handing out amphetamines during major combat operations - look up various stories on 'go pills' from the early stages of the Afghan war. Having taken prescription amphetamines over an extended period for adult ADD this isn't necessarily a disaster, but its not that sustainable either, and I would not be surprised to find a correlation between high dispensation rates and subsequent suicide rates by unit.
- ThrustVectoring 11y agoIt doesn't even have to be outright intentional abuse in order to be a really shitty situation. The story for going home at time X can no longer be something like "I need to sleep in order to be productive tomorrow", so it'll morph into something like "I don't particularly care about the success of the company" and you'll get branded as a bad employee. No top-down force required, just a shift in common knowledge about what your capabilities are.