[HN Gopher] Lucid dream startup says engineers can write code in...
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       Lucid dream startup says engineers can write code in their sleep
        
       Author : pavel_lishin
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2023-12-02 14:38 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | billy99k wrote:
       | Yay! I can work during the day and when I'm sleeping.
        
       | loa_in_ wrote:
       | Surprises no one
        
       | CrzyLngPwd wrote:
       | https://archive.is/adKxv
        
       | willtemperley wrote:
       | The fastest possible way to burn out. Sleep is for healing and
       | recovery. Dreaming in code has always been my sign to slow down.
        
         | chatmasta wrote:
         | Yeah. I've had those nights, and they always come just before a
         | month of burnout and zero coding, not even whilst awake...
        
         | zamalek wrote:
         | This is probably for people who are skipping sleep for work,
         | and are therefore already cognitively compromised and making
         | bad decisions.
        
       | pedalpete wrote:
       | So...they think the FDA will let them burn brain cells so people
       | can "stablize lucid dreaming", ignoring that the science behind
       | this is completely unproven.
       | 
       | https://www.fusfoundation.org/the-technology/mechanisms-of-a...
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       | We're in the neurotech/sleeptech space, and it amazes me that
       | something like this can get funded.
        
       | krapp wrote:
       | Neat. Now the only escape from capitalism will be death.
        
         | dinkleberg wrote:
         | Just you wait https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
        
       | LocalH wrote:
       | Leave it to the capitalists to decide "all those people sleeping?
       | we should find a way to make them work while they sleep so I can
       | make more money!"
       | 
       | Fuck outta here. What gives them the right to decide that? Money?
       | Pfft. Money is overrated.
        
       | TedHerman wrote:
       | The Waterfall method, Agile, ... and eventually, Inception
       | Programming.
        
       | latexr wrote:
       | Another Torment Nexus. Humanity is becoming a parody of itself.
       | 
       | https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/torment-nexus
        
       | whoknew1122 wrote:
       | Work-life balance is when you work the same amount of time at
       | work and when asleep. Right?
        
       | rcbdev wrote:
       | The CEO apparently spent his entire working life in New York with
       | a brief stint in Tel Aviv. Only an American could seriously come
       | up with and attempt to execute on this idea.
        
       | gumballindie wrote:
       | But why since ai will replace them? /s
        
       | smusamashah wrote:
       | Work is something they are selling it with, which is really a
       | stupid way to market it, does it actually induce lucid dreams
       | successfully though. I would buy if it does, more so if it could
       | keep me lucid longer than I can currently do.
        
       | jzombie wrote:
       | In other news, an energy startup has figured out how to extract
       | perpetual energy from the C-suite by hooking electrodes up to
       | them and injecting them with meth.
        
       | zingerlio wrote:
       | Would I hallucinate code in my dream better than an LLM?
        
       | nico wrote:
       | It's like the night people episode from Season 6 of Rick and
       | Morty
       | 
       | Watch it if you want to see how good of an idea it is to be able
       | to work in your sleep
        
       | brettermeier wrote:
       | Oh man this is dumb shit.
        
       | sebastiennight wrote:
       | Hmmm... So that's how to go from 10x developer to 24x developer.
       | Sign me up!
        
       | PhasmaFelis wrote:
       | As far as I can tell, all they're actually promising is a way to
       | enable lucid dreaming. Nothing do to with work at all.
       | 
       | Only somehow they've decided that the best way to market is "you
       | can have a lucid dreamland where you can do anything you want
       | inside your head, and that means _you can think about work all
       | night._ "
       | 
       | Which is utterly baffling. Who's the target market for this
       | claim? Billionaire venture capitalists who want to make their
       | staff work all night and also don't pay enough attention to
       | funding applications before signing them?
        
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