Could futarchy be used to run a business? Setting up a business is much easier than taking over the government of a country!

Bets could be proposed like: "If policy X is adopted then the share dividend on such and such a date will be higher than if it is not adopted". Bets with the highest support could then be adopted and over time, the share dividend would steadily increase.

Thank you for your positive comments, and particularly those interested in contributing to the code.

I've created a git repository here: https://github.com/rlp10/sitm. I've also written some initial documents outlining my ideas for how the code would be written: a README document, a TODO list, a list of ideas for plugins and a PLAN document giving my overall technical roadmap. All these are committed into the repository for you to read and comment upon.

I would be very grateful for people's comments on github regarding my plans for coding. I would like this to be a community effort. I've posted some questions already under "Issues".

I will post back here with our progress for those who wish to try using the program. All technical discussion will take place on github, rather than on lesswrong.com.

Let's work together to make this project a success and get ourselves more motivated and productive!

I've just spoken with the venue and unusually they're not opening until 12 noon!

There's another pub that's definitely open called The Belle Vue; It's just around the corner. The address is The Belle Vue, 46 St. Phillips Road, Norwich, NR2 3BL. The directions from The Black Horse are: walk up Heighman Road, take the first left onto Stafford Street and then it's on the corner of the fourth right turn which is called St Phillips Road.

I'll plan to stay at The Black Horse until 11:15am in case someone else shows up, and then walk up to The Belle Vue.

Alexey, you related this experience to me when I visited Cambridge a couple of weeks back. I've taken your advice and setup a meetup in Norwich this weekend. I only posted a week earlier on the website though, so perhaps next time I should post more in advance.

So, that's another benefit of the Budepest meetup, it encouraged at least one other meetup in another city.

How will we find each other? A giant paperclip? I look like this.

After discussion on irc, it has been proposed that a LW game of Nomic would be fun.

Anyone interested? I think an email game is the way to go.

I'm interested though more as an observer, for old times' sake. (I was an active Agora and FRC player for years.)

Yay, yet another LW-spinoff mailing list. ISTM that anytime the LW community has to spin off a mailing list, that's another sign that there's something broken about the current forum implementation. There should be an easier way to spin off "subreddits" instead.

I believe that this is sometimes referred to as the 'ABC model' (antecedent, behaviour, consequence) and is the basis of cognitive behavioural therapy.

The book, Self-Directed Behaviour, is based on this model. I enjoyed it but, as I'm not academic in that area, can't really comment on the research behind it.

I doubt there is any easy way; maybe after a long time you could say that technique A or B seems to work for you, but I think there are huge placebo effects at work here. For example, I often feel a bit of a [short-lived] burst of energy after reading one of the self-help books -- almost any of such books (Getting Things Done, The 7 Habits, even Tony Robbins' books), which does not really say much about the efficacy of the specific techniques.

Maybe you have a twin brother or sister who could be the control group?

At work I take a screenshot every 3 minutes, so when I come to do my timesheets I have a pretty accurate idea of what I was doing.