pjeby 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: xamdam 28 September 2010 01:12:30AM 3 points [-]

Enhancement suggestion: time-shifting. Make periodic screenshots and deposit them on the server. Of course this will not work with IM, but the shame factor might just be enough. Plus you can occasionally use "privacy privileges" and delete x% of the screenshots, in case of the obvious.

I could actually see this as a product.

Comment author: cousin_it 28 September 2010 11:18:48AM *  2 points [-]

I'm more interested in using the technique than enhancing it or spreading it. Writing special software, making it a product or even evangelizing feels icky because I don't want to become a self-help guru like pjeby (who used to be a well-known programmer in the Python world), I just want to achieve my own goals. It's strange and mysterious to me why many other people don't instinctively avoid roads that are "bad for the karma".

Comment author: pjeby 29 September 2010 07:05:14PM 1 point [-]

pjeby (who used to be a well-known programmer in the Python world)

Whaddya mean, "used to be"? ;-) I'm still well-known for far greater evils in the Python world (cough, setuptools, cough) than being a self-help guru, thank you very much.

Comment author: cousin_it 29 September 2010 10:46:53PM *  1 point [-]

Apologies. My phrasing was very poor. Being a heavy user of Python, of course I know about setuptools.