saturn comments on Anti-akrasia remote monitoring experiment - Less Wrong

45 Post author: cousin_it 27 September 2010 11:34PM

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Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 27 September 2010 11:53:39PM 1 point [-]

I should add that both Vladimir and I understand that most people do not want to participate in remote monitoring because of the loss of privacy. Also, if I ever do write software to make remote monitoring more efficient, I will take great pains so that the software is not used to monitor people without their consent. That would probably mean assigning copyright in the software to an individual or a group with a reputation for humaneness and not releasing it under and open-source license.

Comment author: saturn 28 September 2010 04:59:12AM 11 points [-]

I don't think you need to be so concerned about your open source anti-procrastination software being adapted to nefarious uses. That horse has been out of the stable for a long time.