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army1987 comments on Motivation and Merciless Commitment Contracts - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: peirce 08 August 2013 12:27AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 09 August 2013 11:53:59AM 0 points [-]

I've had no success with negative incentives before

You should mention that in the other comment -- ‘I've tried something similar before and it didn't work’ is more reasonable-sounding than ‘nah, that wouldn't work’.