What’s up with lesswrong and lumenators? It’s not that rats are less susceptible to marketing, or better at finding products. (Or, not only.) It’s something about reframing the problem from “I need blue light therapy” to “I need photons” and then sourcing photons from wherever they’re cheapest.
This is related to More Dakka: “I need blue light therapy” isn’t dakka-able because you’re either doing the therapy or your not. Whereas “I need photons” is dakka-able—it’s easier to see what it would mean to 100x photons.
I mean if one thinks of oneself as a system with simple inputs (water, basic nutrients, light, air) & outputs, then trying to list the relevant inputs and intervening on them makes sense? And in my mind wondering “what’s the optimal level/type of light” bottoms out at “early spring/late summer day”.
(I’m (very slowly) running an RCT on the effects of lumenators (38/50 datapoints collected), probably to be posted EOY. In the meantime there’s Sandkühler et al. testing people with SAD & 100k lumens, finding broadly positive results)
What’s up with lesswrong and lumenators? It’s not that rats are less susceptible to marketing, or better at finding products. (Or, not only.) It’s something about reframing the problem from “I need blue light therapy” to “I need photons” and then sourcing photons from wherever they’re cheapest.
This is related to More Dakka: “I need blue light therapy” isn’t dakka-able because you’re either doing the therapy or your not. Whereas “I need photons” is dakka-able—it’s easier to see what it would mean to 100x photons.
I mean if one thinks of oneself as a system with simple inputs (water, basic nutrients, light, air) & outputs, then trying to list the relevant inputs and intervening on them makes sense? And in my mind wondering “what’s the optimal level/type of light” bottoms out at “early spring/late summer day”.
(I’m (very slowly) running an RCT on the effects of lumenators (38/50 datapoints collected), probably to be posted EOY. In the meantime there’s Sandkühler et al. testing people with SAD & 100k lumens, finding broadly positive results)