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by baq 566 days ago
I’m not convinced we need to engineer sleep in the general population. Once shorter sleep times are available to everyone, they’ll be expected and then simply assumed just as cars are right now in most of the US.
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It is very important to ensure that society does not work this way.
Your argument works just as well for eyeglasses. Was inventing eyeglasses a mistake?
You’re confusing glasses with sight and besides the analogy would be not vs glasses, but vs some kind of cyber eye implant.