dreeves comments on Anti-akrasia tool: like stickK.com for data nerds - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kingreaper 10 October 2011 03:54:43PM 0 points [-]

Can't you also have a 60 minute study, with no safety buffer, by using the "personal max" option on a flat road?

Certainly seems like that'd work to me.

Comment author: dreeves 10 October 2011 04:31:06PM 1 point [-]

Good point! But with that kind of graph we assume (like with weight loss) that the measurements are noisy and we compute the width of the yellow brick road based on the variance in the data. So if you put in huge days occasionally then the road width could get too big and the road would lose its teeth.

But mostly we just haven't tried doing it that way. If anyone wants to, we'll pay close attention to it and see if we can make it work.