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Imagine what we could achieve if humans needed only 42 minutes of sleep per day…
by jobigoud 8y ago
Imagine what we could achieve if humans needed only 42 minutes of sleep per day…
- acct1771 8y agoExactly what we're achieving now, just faster? More war, consumption, etc?
- gnulinux 8y agoI think it would give a constant time advantage. If humanity operates on O(f(t)) in that case we would operate on O(C f(t)). That is, as opposed, improvements that change the model itself (i.e. f) such as increased productivity, automation, cultural shifts etc...
- jobigoud 8y agoI thought about this argument some more. Instead of spending ten times longer awake, you could say the same for living ten times longer. It's also just a linear increase your reasoning would apply. But I feel that if all geniuses of history had lived 800 years they could have achieve more and we would be further along. It changes the model because along the way we make meta discoveries about learning and methodology and science itself, and even just discoveries that we build upon. That feeds back into our progress.
- haskellandchill 8y agoTime isn’t the biggest constraint, it’s our inability to do reasonable things in large groups. Ha.