| ▲ | glerk 2 hours ago |
| Aging and cancer are also Lindy. Two things you'll always find someone to defend with vigor are sleep and death. A lot of humans seem to despise living in general. It's fascinating to see. |
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| ▲ | adamtaylor_13 an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| Well... Sleep and death are natural. I'm not convinced you see people "defend" death so much as (rightly) acknowledging the inevitability of it. The latter half of your comment is rather smug, but I wouldn't look down on people who have peacefully accepted reality. Time is fleeting and we are but flowers in a field—briefly brightly bloomed and then withered. |
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| ▲ | glerk 24 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | > I wouldn't look down on people who have peacefully accepted reality Throughout human history, all progress was achieved by people who refused to "peacefully accept reality". But I hope you also get to reap the benefits and correct your depressing mindset some day. | |
| ▲ | cindyllm an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | [dead] |
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| ▲ | axus 26 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Society would adapt without sleep, but ending death would mark the beginning of a nightmare humanity never wakes up from. |
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| ▲ | ben_w 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Sleep is less surprising for me to see people defend than death, to the extent that I'm not sure if I myself have or not done so. I mean, I can directly feel the benefit of a good sleep that refreshes me in the morning, whereas there's those who have passed on whom I miss. If I didn't need sleep, really didn't, I wouldn't seek to re-invent it; but of the two it is old age that I'd actively pay money to hold back, if treatments for both existed at the same cost per extra hour of consciousness in my lifetime. |
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| ▲ | glerk 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Obviously, every single one of us needs sleep to survive. But it's a biological chore, not some sacred ritual to be celebrated. Reducing the amount of sleep that we need is worth researching. What is surprising to me is the knee-jerk reaction I see whenever the idea of looking into this is brought up. | | |
| ▲ | Qem an hour ago | parent [-] | | > What is surprising to me is the knee-jerk reaction I see whenever the idea of looking into this is brought up. It's because if it were achieved, likely result would be employers forcing people to take the drug and increasing daily work hours back to 16+. | | |
| ▲ | glerk 27 minutes ago | parent [-] | | > likely result would be employers forcing people to take the drug How so? You can just... refuse? And do you prefer sleeping to working? Doing a job that you hate for 8h and sleeping for 8h is much worse than doing a job that you love for 16h. Something to think about. |
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| ▲ | FeteCommuniste 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Even if I never needed to sleep again I would kind of miss dreaming. Maybe we could take another drug to make us dream. |
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