Roko comments on New Year’s Resolutions Thread - Less Wrong

8 Post author: MichaelVassar 30 December 2009 09:36PM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 30 December 2009 11:10:30PM 7 points [-]

A public reminder: making a public commitment might be counterproductive to achievement, possibly because you start feeling too secure in the resolution and prematurely reap the fuzzies of expected good deed for the day.

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Comment author: Liron 31 December 2009 06:00:58PM 1 point [-]

That is probably ideal, and you also need a way to guarantee that people gain access to the decryption key next year.