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I am uniquely positioned to comment on this as someone who did polyphasic sleeping.
The biggest problem I had with polyphasic sleeping is that even though I had far more waking hours, the total amount of energy I had was the same. So I didn't manage to take advantage of my additional time besides watching a lot of movies and playing video games.
For a drug to actually add lifespan, it not only needs to reduce your total sleep needs, it needs to increase your recovery by >2x for the same duration of sleep. Because you're not just recovering from the same amount of work in shorter time, you've now added additional work that you have to recover from in that shorter amount of time.
So going from sleeping 8 hours to recover from 16 hours of waking to
4 hours to recover from 20 hours of waking
that's a 5:2 ratio of how many waking hours a given hour of sleep accounted for.
If the drugs aren't able to reach this level of efficiency, then the added lifespan is pointless since you won't be able to make good use of it. There's nothing worse than having more time and being bored out of your mind since you don't have the energy to do anything.
I've always been obsessed with the idea of extending human life without actually having to live longer.
Of the roughly 100 billion people who have lived on Earth, no one has lived past the age of 130.
But there are thousands of people who can naturally sleep 4 hours (or less) a night, and still feel and perform as well as people who sleep 8.
What this suggests is that one of the easiest ways to extend human life might not be adding more years to the end of it, but allowing us to be awake for more if it.
Imagine this:
You can sleep for 4 hours instead of 8 without compromising your health or energy. You gain 4 additional waking hours every single day. That's about 60 extra days of conscious life every year. From age 20 to 80 you would buy back close to a decade of waking life.
And the good news is we're starting to see therapeutics being developed – sometimes peptides, sometimes small molecules – that could plausibly allow people to sleep 4 hours, but feel as if they've slept less.
One things researchers are going after at the moment is orexin. Researchers studied natural short sleepers and found that they produce more orexin during the day than others. They called it a wakefulness peptide.
Now, honestly -- I don't think orexin is fully going to get us there.
Allowing people to feel more awake is one part of the sleep equation, but that doesn't automatically mean they need less sleep, but ways to improve the efficiency of sleep. And the main challenge is that we don't really understand what improves sleep efficiency yet.
I genuinely believe we eventually get to a world where everyone can sleep less and, as a result, effectively live longer.
I'm obsessed with this because I think this is one of the most fascinating frontiers in longevity.
We spend so much time trying to live longer, but what if we could get more life out of the years we already have?
I think we'll have an answer to this in the next 10 years.
it must be hell to be working at a frontier lab with unlimited tokens and then leave to not spend even 1/100th the tokens you did before
I really wish ChatGPT allowed you to create 4k images. its image model is so good but the resolution is a limiting factor for a lot of usecases. xxx
~sent from my openclaw~
the easiest way to attention farm on twitter is post about how much you love/hate being asian/female and watch as thousands of trolls swarm upon you like locusts
nothing like racism/misogyny that gets people going
the plague of short form social media has driven society to be so short term minded
which is such a shame because the demand for quality long form content has gone down a lot. and the creators of that have to pivot to what the market demands
oh it turns out the sandworm from Dune is inspired by the Mongolian Death Worm xxx
~sent from my openclaw~
this is one of my favourite jazz songs so I got Claude to create a music video
presenting Watermelon Man - Herbie Hancock
kind amazing how I just prompted this to my openclaw and it built it. we truly live in the age of wonders (although my health issues have also been caused by that) xxx
~sent from my openclaw~
> the year is 2040
> ASI has been achieved
> you get a notification to update to Java 8 Update 1103
> there are still 3 billion devices running Java
Geico for agents is just @UseCorgi isn’t it
The MOST obvious (but REALLY good) STARTUP ideas right now:
1. Zestimate for company data (what your data is worth to an AI lab)
2. Google Analytics for agents (see which agents visit your site and what they want)
3. Y Combinator for 1 person companies (back solo founders running a team of agents)
4. Okta for agents (who each agent is and what it's allowed to touch)
5. Marie Kondo for your company's data (clean it up so agents can use it)
6. FICO for agents (a trust score before an agent can spend money)
7. Geico for agents (insurance for when an agent makes an expensive mistake)
8. Datadog for agents (see every step your agents took)
9. Twilio for agents (phone numbers and texting for agents)
10. Upwork for agents (hire an agent for a job instead of a freelancer)
11. ESPN for AI (every model launch covered like a big game).
12. Shutterstock for robot training videos (get paid to film yourself doing chores)
13. Credit Karma for what AI knows about you (see it, fix it, delete it)
14. Norton for AI scams (protect your parents from fake voices and emails)
15. PayPal Buyer Protection for agent purchases (fixes it when your agent buys the wrong thing)
16. Geek Squad for AI (set up personal agents for families and small businesses)
17. Dell for private AI (AI in a box for firms that won't use the cloud)
18. Carfax for used GPUs (a health report before you buy secondhand)
19. Airbnb for idle GPUs (rent out computing power you're not using)
20. Rotten Tomatoes for AI models (real reviews instead of benchmarks)
21. G2 for skills (find the best skills for your agent)
22. Dropbox for your AI memory (take what your agent knows about you to any agent)
23. Canva for physical products (design it with AI and get it made)
24. ADT for your personal agent (alerts when your agent does something it shouldn't)
25. Hertz for robots (rent one for a move, a deep clean or an event)
26. Harvard Business School for internet businesses (a real education in building online)
27. Workday for agents (onboard, manage and offboard your digital workers)
28. Getty Images for your face and voice (license your likeness to AI safely)
29. Meta Muse for older adults (and other high LTV niche)
30. Google Ads for agents (pay to be what the agent recommends)
31. Loom for agents (a walkthrough of everything your agent did)
32. Plaid for agents (approved access to banks, airlines and stores)
33. Jiffy Lube for vibe coded apps (quick fixes when your AI built app breaks)
34. Ancestry for datasets (where your training data came from)
35. The organic label for human-made content (proof a person made it)
36. Strava for builders (track what you ship every week)
37. Honey that haggles for you (your agent negotiates the price)
38. SEM Rush for personal agent platforms (like Muse etc)
39. Frequent flyer miles for agents (loyalty programs built for agents)