Jordan comments on Anti-akrasia remote monitoring experiment - Less Wrong
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My roommate and I had a no-internet day last week. It worked surprisingly well. One of the key reasons I didn't crumble and turn our router back on was that I wanted my roommate to be productive. It's easy for me to play off my own need to be productive, but I'm less cavalier with the productivity of someone else.
I know that personally this would require a day or two of preperation, but it might not be typical of everyone else that in order to do what I ought to do I need to download the PDFs, watch the videos, consult Wolfram Alpha, etc.
On the other hand, the idea of a no-internet day is pretty exciting, as that same workflow is too easy to derail with Facebook or Less Wrong.
Just one day? Do you plan to repeat it?
I plan on repeating it again, if I can convince my roommate!