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screenshot of this bluesky post (which you can read without logging in here) from @comraderobot.bsky.social ("Notorious RBMK") saying:
my friend who still lives in palo alto gave me permission to share this mailer he got.
there’s unhinged and then there’s tech unhinged
image in post has two photos of people wearing EEG electrodes, one xray of a human head, an EEG data plot over a silhouette of a head, and this text:
REM sleep is the next Al
The upcoming era of physical reality integrated with dream worlds advanced by the REMspace startup
- Controlling a smart home from dreams
- Transferring speech from dreams
- Controlling virtual cars from dreams
- Interacting with dream worlds using brain implants
- Social media for sharing dream journals
- Smart sleep masks powered by Al
- Many other breakthroughs from our lab (videos and tech)
Don't miss the pitch of the year for potential partners and investors
Aug 29th Palo Alto
Above the image is an (inaccurate) BlueSky label saying "Possible tumblr screenshot" with a "hide" button.
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the guy behind this startup:
- (CW bloody photos) "I confirm the information published in the Daily Mail. On May 17, 2023, I performed by myself trepanation, electrode implantation, and electrical stimulation of my brain's motor cortex. I needed it to test brain stimulation during lucid dreaming"
- https://www.newsweek.com/russian-implants-chip-brain-control-dreams-hospital-1814256
I remember a very long time ago reading this guy's blog where he detailed his experiments with polyphasic sleeping schedules. Dude claimed he slept only a couple hours a day, in 20-30 minute increments every 4 hours or something. At the time I just thought it sounded wild and like a kind of cool idea.
Now I just remember how he said it gave him more time to work, which makes me sad.
That sleeping style is known as the Da Vinci method, as he was the one who purportedly popularized it. The schedule has been thoroughly studied, and the conclusion is that a human being could not sustain such a sleeping method since mental, physical, emotional, and mental degradation and damage begins to wreck havoc incredibly quickly, and will cause lasting harm that negates any of the purported benefits.
I feel like I heard of some method that is long enough to get through a REM cycle but also relatively short like 1:30-3:00 hour increments or something. But it's been years, so I could be remembering wrong. I wonder how that would compare to this thing of 20-30 minute increments. On the face of it, it seems like the 2nd would be a disaster because of not giving sufficient time to get into REM sleep.