Beeminder
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November 12th, 2022
- non-coercion - it seems to me that in some sense what Beeminder is doing is marking the reality of the passage of time, with reference to this particular area of your life... and yeah, spreading the consequences out so that you have a tighter feedback loop made of something real
February 26th, 2022
from a Intend user, re the commitment contracts feature -… › > You bring an interesting point up about how we want to …
- although I guess I think in some cases the way Beeminder operates is that people have anxiety around school so they get school done, but unless they also generate anxiety around making sure to hang out with friends they they just become socially isolated, or whatever 😅
- like, someone might even already be getting their homework done due to the inherent anxiety of grades & deadlines
- but they put off hanging out with friends unless they beemind it
November 5th, 2021
- the phenomenon Beeminder talks about, of if your error system reports something that doesn't require immediate action, the immediate action is to fix the false positive
- R > buddhism - suffering is such an error system
- M > maps onto David Deutsch's irrational memeplex
- thinking that rejects other thinking is an error-correcting meta-meme, but it can't listen & can't synthesize
- memetic immune system
- R > you don't want things to scale too fast
- part of you knows more about the world than another part
- but the other part needs to ignore that knows-more part in order to get the understanding it needs
- M > the word organize
- R > "cardiovascular health of a tribe" might be a reasonable concept
October 7th, 2020
- Something about how Self-Referential Motivation is a way to hack the Beeminder-style approach, where you just CHOOSE that you're going to do a thing by a time or whatever.
- it would be cool to do at least a stub roamblog writeup about "what is punishment?" that uses the missing the bus example but also talks about how negative reinforcement can be punishment even when it's not intended to make you feel bad ---- whoaaaaa and how Beeminder is not actually punishment ?!!? hm.