What if extreme polyphasic sleep does inhibit effective healing, and this also affects the anti-cancer component in the model for the Gompertz curve?
That’s a tough call, and depends on the numbers and how I value hours. Do I prefer daytime hours to nighttime hours? The reverse? Do I discount based on objective time, or subjective time? (i.e. should I seem less patient to others while on Uberman, because to me waiting 3 days for something represents being aware of waiting for 40% longer?) Do I try to weight the future more heavily, since the further future will probably be more awesome than the nearer future?
If I assume the simple goal of “maximize total number of hours awake,” then I just need to know how uberman affects my risk growth rate. If it has no physiological effect except aging me at my subjective time (i.e. 16 years pass on the calendar, but I’ve been awake as much as most people are in 22 years, and my body is 22 years older rather than 16) then it doesn’t matter whether I’m on it or not. If it ages me more slowly than that (my body ages 20 years in those 16, but I’m awake for 22) then I’m better off on it. If it ages me more quickly than that (my body ages 30 years in those 16), then I’m better off not doing it.
What seems likely as a middle road, though, is staying on uberman until my body hits 45 years old and cancer starts becoming an issue, and then switching to normal sleep, presuming that uberman does inhibit my cancer response but doesn’t increase my chance of death due to accident.
I am regretting not getting a blood test done, though, as it would be nice to compare white blood cell counts before and after.
If it has no physiological effect except aging me at my subjective time (i.e. 16 years pass on the calendar, but I’ve been awake as much as most people are in 22 years, and my body is 22 years older rather than 16) then it doesn’t matter whether I’m on it or not.
Incorrect, because you’ve only gotten the benefit of 16 years of medical advancement, rather than 22 years of medical advancement. This alone may overwhelm all other differences.
That’s a tough call, and depends on the numbers and how I value hours. Do I prefer daytime hours to nighttime hours? The reverse? Do I discount based on objective time, or subjective time? (i.e. should I seem less patient to others while on Uberman, because to me waiting 3 days for something represents being aware of waiting for 40% longer?) Do I try to weight the future more heavily, since the further future will probably be more awesome than the nearer future?
If I assume the simple goal of “maximize total number of hours awake,” then I just need to know how uberman affects my risk growth rate. If it has no physiological effect except aging me at my subjective time (i.e. 16 years pass on the calendar, but I’ve been awake as much as most people are in 22 years, and my body is 22 years older rather than 16) then it doesn’t matter whether I’m on it or not. If it ages me more slowly than that (my body ages 20 years in those 16, but I’m awake for 22) then I’m better off on it. If it ages me more quickly than that (my body ages 30 years in those 16), then I’m better off not doing it.
What seems likely as a middle road, though, is staying on uberman until my body hits 45 years old and cancer starts becoming an issue, and then switching to normal sleep, presuming that uberman does inhibit my cancer response but doesn’t increase my chance of death due to accident.
I am regretting not getting a blood test done, though, as it would be nice to compare white blood cell counts before and after.
Incorrect, because you’ve only gotten the benefit of 16 years of medical advancement, rather than 22 years of medical advancement. This alone may overwhelm all other differences.
And then there are other time-dependent things, like compounding interest/returns.