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guzey

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About guzey

bio, econ, speeding up the future

https://newscience.org / https://guzey.com

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    Comment #34721422

    Consider reading the last section of the post.

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    Comment #34721408

    Consider actually reading the post before commenting next time. I didn't do an "180" switch. I wrote: >1. There’s no good medical reason to sleep more than the minimum you can sust…

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    Comment #30294820

    No, you are. You specifically wrote that I "equate" (3) and (4) to my conclusion. You wrote: >probably also wouldn't equate "a person with an ADRB1 mutation can sleep less" and "a …

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    Comment #30294372

    > How does your essay explain that I feel horrible for 2-3 hours after waking up if I don't get enough sleep? So, you are saying that when you don't get enough sleep, you feel fine…

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    Comment #30294344

    Are you seriously arguing that sleeping out in the nature, potentially with dangerous animals around you, on bear skins, with several friends (on the same bear skin?) is as comfort…

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    Comment #30293835

    >Yes, please, do continue to slam a whole field that you are not yourself in. Love hearing from people who love to just cherry pick a couple of articles to support their claims. ey…

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    Comment #30293756

    Is drinking modern water a superstimulus like modern junk food from my analogy is?

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    Comment #30293744

    So what you are saying is that, just like me, in your 20s you were optimize for getting shit done and now, being older, you optimize for feeling good and don't care about doing as …

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    Comment #30293155

    >I probably also wouldn't equate "a person with an ADRB1 mutation can sleep less" and "a single individual that underwent brain surgery can sleep less" with "Decreasing sleep by 1-…

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    Comment #30292942

    Yep, and here's conclusion of this argument: >Now, what if the only sleep available to you was modern sleep? > 1. If you don’t sleep at all, you go crazy, because some amount of sl…

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    Comment #30292480

    For the readers, here's my actual argument ( https://guzey.com/theses-on-sleep/#comfortable-modern-sleep-... ): >1. Experiencing hunger is normal and does not necessarily imply tha…

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    Comment #30292317

    I'm curious - what do you believe I should've done? How do you discredit a p-hacked small-n experiment, aside from noting that it should not be trusted a priori due to the extreme …

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    Comment #30292293

    Hilarious. Except for the fact that a bunch of neuroscientists actually read my draft and gave me comments a lot of which I incorporated in the essay, e.g. https://guzey.com/theses…

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    Comment #30292165

    For those interested, here's my critique of sleep science ( https://guzey.com/theses-on-sleep/#our-priors-about-sleep-re... ): >Do you believe in power-posing? In ego depletion? In…

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    Comment #27982657

    >Working 10 to 12 hours straight with only one or two half an hour breaks is no goal one should thrive for. Neither working 80 hours a week. I work on the thing I love & care deepl…

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    Comment #27167285

    Lmao yes, I heard very similar things... Would love to chat sometime and hear more from you! alexey@newscience.org

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    Comment #27167278

    Super interesting observations. Would love to chat sometime and hear more! alexey@newscience.org

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    Comment #27167107

    I'm mostly raising money from people who read my blog (guzey.com) at the moment lol but planning to go to foundations and people interested in funding basic science at scale in the…

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    Comment #26695134

    extraordinary

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    Comment #26689748

    How do you define "research" and "opinion"?

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    Comment #26689487

    It means that I do "research". e.g. - https://guzey.com/how-life-sciences-actually-work/ - https://guzey.com/science/sleep/14-day-sleep-deprivation-sel...

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    Comment #26687864

    The email exchange in question is contained in the post I link itself directly following the broken link: https://yngve.hoiseth.net/articles/why-we-sleep-institutiona... - kinda in…

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    Comment #26687833

    I do not have depression and do not experience significantly notable mood changes when acutely sleep deprived. The general idea of the book is literally -- sleep 7-8 hours or you'l…