[yayana]

Showing that you can maintain a stress state for school years doesn't really tell us whether you will retain any information after you are done or be a safe doctor by retirement age. I would guess today's doctors will have a much higher chance of dementia than equally educated but never sleep deprived peers.

Similarly, a firefighter who does steroids might be better until he dies of a heart attack at an inopportune time causing additional deaths. But the real risk as far as I am concerned is that if the steroids are allowed and the tests are standard, then his eventual choice is to take steroids or not be a firefighter. Play that out enough and you have a doped out society that is quantitatively better on what you choose to measure, but highly toxic, needing bail outs for long term side effects, and making short term labor discounts until you figure out where the no free lunch thereom has stashed the harm.

[mythas]

“Until you figure out where the no free lunch theorem has stashed the harm” is a saying I will be using for the rest of my days.

[FiveSquared25]

Or ham ;) “Until you figure out where the no free lunch theorem has stashed the ham.”