Curation notice: I’m far from sold on the specific conclusions of this piece (discussed more here, EDIT: and by AllAmericanBreakfast below), but I’m really excited to see the combination of strongly grounded criticisms of existing work, new hypotheses, and serious experimentation to test those hypotheses. In my ideal world this leads to more people running experiments that produce useful object-level data and a better approach for those experiments, which can be scaled (e.g. how do you measure cognitive abilities over a year, reliably and with minimal time costs), and eventually leads to a better understanding of sleep and how a given person should optimize for their goals.
Curation notice: I’m far from sold on the specific conclusions of this piece (discussed more here, EDIT: and by AllAmericanBreakfast below), but I’m really excited to see the combination of strongly grounded criticisms of existing work, new hypotheses, and serious experimentation to test those hypotheses. In my ideal world this leads to more people running experiments that produce useful object-level data and a better approach for those experiments, which can be scaled (e.g. how do you measure cognitive abilities over a year, reliably and with minimal time costs), and eventually leads to a better understanding of sleep and how a given person should optimize for their goals.