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Ozempic for Sleep
- patrickhogan1 2y agoFascinating stuff. Reminds me of the decreased sleep need associated with hypomania—something attributed to historical figures like Alexander Hamilton or contemporary ones like Elon Musk. I wonder if there’s a shared neurobiological mechanism here, perhaps involving orexin pathways. If so, exploring this overlap might unlock even more interesting avenues for research and therapies.
- pstuart 2y agoIf they could capture the energy and joy from hypomania without the disconnect from reality they'd have a winner.
- robocat 2y agoI've always thought there's a third variable: something causes the lack of sleep, and the lack of sleep causes mania. Disturbed sleeping causes a wide variety of different psych symptoms in different people. An acquaintance was almost committed for schizophrenia - but sleeping pills fixed the night horrors and they avoided commital.
- Defletter 2y agoI both want and worry about this. I genuinely hope this does not become as effectively mandatory as having a smartphone.
- kolinko 2y agoI had a similar discussion, half-jokingly, about a legal ban on coffee in workplaces. Drinking it is optional, but non drinkers get disadvantaged and really need to join to keep up.
- dot1x 2y agoWhy? Coffee is nowhere near effective once you're taking it everyday.
- RandomBacon 2y agoThere is a social aspect. I think there was a Friends episode where one of the characters got left out of business advancement because she didn't smoke cigarettes and wasn't in the smoking area socializing with the boss and another employee was.
- schwartzworld 2y agoCan’t you just drink something else?
- 31carmichael 2y agoNope, it's not the same. Different vibe.
- Apocryphon 2y agoWhat about decaf, who would know?
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- LoganDark 2y agoI really hope that this eventually becomes a thing but I am super sad that it won't any time soon. It really sucks to learn that some lucky people just don't need nearly as much sleep and that I'm just not one of those lucky people and will never be able to achieve that.
- nextts 2y agoIf everyone gets it, no one is lucky. It becomes the new normal. It could make the world a lot worse in many ways.
- RandomBacon 2y agoPerhaps. Technology, instead of giving us more free time, caused us just to fill that free time with different work.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Technology, instead of giving us more free time, caused us just to fill that free time with different work Technology gave us more free time. It also gave us more things to do with that time. You don't need more than a few tens of thousands of dollars of savings to basically retire somewhere remote-ish and live a 19th-century lifestyle. Most of us don't do it because want air travel and internet and modern medicines.
- piva00 2y agoAnd the free work we do is exactly for the platforms dominating us, we do all the curation of data for their machine learning to train on, getting paid in scraps of dopamine to get addicted and perpetually perform work on data. Data is the new oil, just better since there's a never-ending cycle of creating more of it.
- dyauspitr 2y agoAbsolutely, it would mean 16 hour work days for everyone.
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- Arch485 2y agoExcellent, now we can justify working more hours per day because our employees need less sleep!