Timeline for The Sleepless City
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| Apr 1, 2016 at 2:37 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | Are you willing to have a society which accomplishes less, in exchange for not sleeping, rather than more? There's actually some very rational reasons why the requirement to not sleep can generate less optimal results than cases where one has the option to sleep, but doesn't always need to. | |
| Mar 31, 2016 at 21:28 | comment | added | AwkwardBowman | I'm trying to make it so you have no need for that 5 minutes. If you can eliminate all of that, how would productivity (and the demand/use of it) change? | |
| Mar 31, 2016 at 21:26 | history | edited | AwkwardBowman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 31, 2016 at 21:22 | comment | added | AwkwardBowman | @CortAmmon I'll adjust the question then, because that's still part of what I'm trying to eliminate. | |
| Mar 31, 2016 at 21:20 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | There is a need for relaxation at many levels, sleep being one. If you find a way to remove the need for sleep, using some technology to avoid the side effects, you may find that there were lessers relaxations (like break times) which were also important, and become even more important now that they can't sleep things off. It does start to point at a philosophical limit. What does it mean to be productive? If I stare at the screen for 5 minutes, unmoving while I think, and then write down a million dollar idea, is it any less productive than if I shut my eyes for 5 minutes, before writing? | |
| Mar 31, 2016 at 18:16 | comment | added | AwkwardBowman | @cortammon So is there just a need for relaxation that must be accommodated for people to remain capable of efficient production? I'm essentially trying to create a community that functions almost 24/7. Would it help if I changed the question more to reflect that? I just didn't want it to be too broad. | |
| Mar 31, 2016 at 18:14 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | I think you will find that, in the answers, it is hard to single out just sleep as something to affect, without second order effects stepping in. There are many forms of relaxation which humans rely on, and science understands frustratingly little about them. | |
| Mar 31, 2016 at 17:42 | answer | added | AndreiROM | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 31, 2016 at 17:40 | history | edited | AwkwardBowman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 31, 2016 at 17:33 | history | asked | AwkwardBowman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |