In the comments, I don’t understand why people seem to be so swayed by the comparison of sleep deprivation to fasting or exercise. The only thing that tells you is that things that might seem harmful sometimes aren’t, which is obviously the case. It doesn’t speak at all to whether or not acute sleep deprivation is good for you no more than it speaks to whether not getting occasionally getting blitzed is good for you.
Which comments are you referring to?
And I thought it was clear enough that those analogies were meant to demonstrate that there’s no necessary connection between something feeling bad in the short term and being bad for you. There was no claim that things that feel bad in the short term are, therefore, good for you. As you point out, that would not follow. But the author never attempts to make that argument.
Elizabeth’s comment and one other that I remember but can’t find now.
Revisiting this, I dislike the analogy even more. Analogies aren’t how you do science, and I’d argue that a majority of the time, things that feel bad are bad. Exercise doesn’t even actually generally feel bad, it generally feels good. You don’t have to encourage children to run or skip or hop, you only have to do that with sedentary adults.
Also, the author says that the state of sleep research is “100% a psyop,” so I’m very sceptical of their thinking in general.
Maybe they do have legitimate points, and good ideas can come from people who think differently than the majority, but this article is full of red flags. Somebody else can sort this.
Which comments are you referring to?
And I thought it was clear enough that those analogies were meant to demonstrate that there’s no necessary connection between something feeling bad in the short term and being bad for you. There was no claim that things that feel bad in the short term are, therefore, good for you. As you point out, that would not follow. But the author never attempts to make that argument.
Elizabeth’s comment and one other that I remember but can’t find now.
Revisiting this, I dislike the analogy even more. Analogies aren’t how you do science, and I’d argue that a majority of the time, things that feel bad are bad. Exercise doesn’t even actually generally feel bad, it generally feels good. You don’t have to encourage children to run or skip or hop, you only have to do that with sedentary adults.
Also, the author says that the state of sleep research is “100% a psyop,” so I’m very sceptical of their thinking in general.
Maybe they do have legitimate points, and good ideas can come from people who think differently than the majority, but this article is full of red flags. Somebody else can sort this.