Hacker School Soylent

Re:Hacker School Soylent by camdykeman on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @02:02PM (#5900905)

So if starting tomorrow, you knew that your body only required you to sleep for one hour a night to maintain and repair itself instead of 7-8 you would continue sleeping 7-8 simply because you think its a good use of time?

I doubt it.

You might still lay around in bed on your days off, or you might stay in bed to procrastinate when faced with something to do that day, but arguing that it would still be a good use of time is extremely flawed.

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Re:Hacker School Soylent by DanBC on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @02:22PM (#5901018)

Most people genuinely would like to stay in bed for 8 hours a night, even if a safe, effective, NO_SLEEP_PILL was released that allowed your body to safely get by on just an hours sleep per night.

Sometimes people would chose to sleep less - crunching work, or partying, or whatever. But mostly I really think people like that time.

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Re:Hacker School Soylent by jack-r-abbit on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @02:43PM (#5901150)

I get on average about 5 hours of sleep per night. I would very much like a NO_SLEEP_PILL that made that (or even less) sleep enough for my body. I would not wish to be laying in bed for 8 hours a night if not required to function. I would be using that time to do other things. I also believe my wife is in the same mind set. I know that I'm speaking of a sample of just 1 (or 2 if you count my wife) so that isn't enough to go against your "most people" idea.

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