Here’s an example from someone who believes strongly in cultivating internal motivation—the opposite of shocking yourself if you don’t do enough crudely monitored exercise.
The punishment approach to exercise arguably makes people less likely to exercise at all, and I think it increases the risk of injuries from exercise.
There really is a cultural problem—how popular is the approach from the link compared to The Biggest Loser and boot camps for civilians?
Sidetrack: I’m imagining a shock bracelet to discourage involvement in pointless internet arguments. How would it identify them? Would people use it?
A thing I would like is this. I would totally enable this on LW if it was an option. (And if someone volunteered to write a Firefox plugin to achieve the same client-side, they’d have all my gratefulness.)
I wasn’t sure about doing discussion of the specific point, but other people are....
http://www.moveandbefree.com/blog/laziness-doesnt-exist
Here’s an example from someone who believes strongly in cultivating internal motivation—the opposite of shocking yourself if you don’t do enough crudely monitored exercise.
The punishment approach to exercise arguably makes people less likely to exercise at all, and I think it increases the risk of injuries from exercise.
There really is a cultural problem—how popular is the approach from the link compared to The Biggest Loser and boot camps for civilians?
Sidetrack: I’m imagining a shock bracelet to discourage involvement in pointless internet arguments. How would it identify them? Would people use it?
That’s probably a FAI-complete problem. See also: http://xkcd.com/810/
A thing I would like is this. I would totally enable this on LW if it was an option. (And if someone volunteered to write a Firefox plugin to achieve the same client-side, they’d have all my gratefulness.)
Done. Client-side version, that is.