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sixes_and_sevens comments on Rationalist households: What can London learn from its predecessors? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 23 August 2013 01:47:03PM 7 points [-]

"Getting everyone to agree to use Beeminder" strikes me as pretty tough to negotiate, though probably less tough to negotiate in a LW-cluster household. There are lots of potential failure modes for division of cleanliness labour, and commitment strategies address only a subset of those. The beauty of outsourcing it to a third party is that it bypasses them all.