Theories of human sleep still seem very speculative. I sometimes wonder if there's some function of sleep that's essential to higher intelligence. And if AGIs would need a similar function? 
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Maybe there's not much evolutionary advantage?
It seems difficult to evaluate the evolutionary pros and cons of less sleep, b/c there's so little agreement on why we (and so many other animals) need sleep
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total speculation but maybe the vulnerability of individuals while asleep favours intelligent group behaviour, social interdependency. That aside, not needing (deep, vulnerable) sleep sounds v advantageous
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Isn't sleep supposed to be peak recovery time from stress?
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I mean stress in the muscles need time to recover and regenerate sense
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