Those other roles require that much sleep is because they were designed for that amount. Evolution designed them around however much those animals were sleeping. And of course sleep started way, way, way before humans.
Sleep probably does a bunch of different things. There’s not going to be one drug that suppresses the need for all of it. Or even a whole suite of drugs we can locate now.
Maybe you could cut it to half as much on average without severe downsides, but I’d expect first attempts to fail in subtle ways.
Of course you might not need to live that long naturally if you’re young and take AGI seriously.
Those other roles require that much sleep is because they were designed for that amount. Evolution designed them around however much those animals were sleeping. And of course sleep started way, way, way before humans.
Sleep probably does a bunch of different things. There’s not going to be one drug that suppresses the need for all of it. Or even a whole suite of drugs we can locate now.
Maybe you could cut it to half as much on average without severe downsides, but I’d expect first attempts to fail in subtle ways.
Of course you might not need to live that long naturally if you’re young and take AGI seriously.