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> Have something important in the morning to do? I don't need to put the alarm anymore This doesn't depend on the age. Though it might depend on a person. For

> Have something important in the morning to do? I don't need to put the alarm anymore This doesn't depend on the age. Though it might depend on a person. For a fun experiment try saying in your head "I need to wake up at 6:55" before going to sleep. No need to look at the watch, no need to repeat it, just make sure you actually want this to happen. At 6:55 you will get a slight nudge that wakes you up just enough to realize it's time and to give an opportunity to wake up fully or to keep on sleeping. Seems like magic, but it works very reliably unless I'm dead tired.

capableweb 4y ago
> This doesn't depend on the age. Though it might depend on a person. Yeah, definitely by person, because personally it seems to have only happened as I got older. From birth until I was ~30 or so I could sleep through alarms unless strategically placed away from my bed, and if not awoken, I slept until ~2-3 pm, no matter when I went to bed. Nowadays, I can go to bed at any time and automatically wake up when needed, no matter how tired I'm "supposed" to be. Neither my habits nor much in my life has changed since I was 25 or so, so guessing it has to do with age, but in reality, who knows why?
kevinmchugh 4y ago
Does it work if you don't have a clock visible from bed? And maybe you'd need a blackout shade too. I've heard from a cognitive scientist that we can open our eyes enough during sleep to read a clock.
- huhtenberg 4y ago
  It does, 100%. In fact, at first I thought I had to look at the watch before making this mental wake-up note so that to set a reference point. Turns out that even that is not needed... which is really weird.
hnfong 4y ago
I can attest to this. In my younger days when I was more cocky and had less "important" responsibility, I often literally did what you described instead of setting an alarm clock. (It didn't always work shrug) These days even when I set an alarm, I often wake up a couple minutes before the set timer (though sometimes it varies with error up to 1+ hour, so it isn't that precise). --- Aaronson's story (the original article) is a bit more spooky than that though. If this world was a simulation and if there was a way to glitch out, a lot of his work on computability and computational complexity do seem like prime candidates for a theoretical foundation for breaking out of the simulation. The presentation software censoring his work would be a very mild way to warn him about the dangers of spreading the knowledge to the unwashed masses :P

capableweb 4y ago

> This doesn't depend on the age. Though it might depend on a person. Yeah, definitely by person, because personally it seems to have only happened as I got older. From birth until I was ~30 or so I could sleep through alarms unless strategically placed away from my bed, and if not awoken, I slept until ~2-3 pm, no matter when I went to bed. Nowadays, I can go to bed at any time and automatically wake up when needed, no matter how tired I'm "supposed" to be. Neither my habits nor much in my life has changed since I was 25 or so, so guessing it has to do with age, but in reality, who knows why?

kevinmchugh 4y ago

Does it work if you don't have a clock visible from bed? And maybe you'd need a blackout shade too. I've heard from a cognitive scientist that we can open our eyes enough during sleep to read a clock.

huhtenberg 4y ago
It does, 100%. In fact, at first I thought I had to look at the watch before making this mental wake-up note so that to set a reference point. Turns out that even that is not needed... which is really weird.

hnfong 4y ago

I can attest to this. In my younger days when I was more cocky and had less "important" responsibility, I often literally did what you described instead of setting an alarm clock. (It didn't always work shrug) These days even when I set an alarm, I often wake up a couple minutes before the set timer (though sometimes it varies with error up to 1+ hour, so it isn't that precise). --- Aaronson's story (the original article) is a bit more spooky than that though. If this world was a simulation and if there was a way to glitch out, a lot of his work on computability and computational complexity do seem like prime candidates for a theoretical foundation for breaking out of the simulation. The presentation software censoring his work would be a very mild way to warn him about the dangers of spreading the knowledge to the unwashed masses :P