I’ve been thinking about further automating my reinforcement things, and about automating punishment by buying an electroshock collar (normally used to train dogs).
I don’t know if you’re being serious here, but I am.
Beware of shock collars. Dogs have much thicker skin than humans, it’s more loosely attached to the underlying tissue, and it’s covered with fur. A mild zap for a dog might be too dangerous to apply to a human neck. I suggest contacting your local BDSM community for advice on where and how to safely give yourself electric shocks. They may also be able to advise on ways of making it impossible to take off until the time is up. Although, as I’ve said in a top-level comment to this post, whatever the setup, the conditionality between behaviour and reward is an exercise in role-playing. In reality you can eat and drink whatever you want whenever you want, and you are choosing to imagine a connection with doing your Anki work.
More importantly, with conditioning, there’s always the question of what exactly are you doing? (Particularly acute in cases of positive punishment like electroshock.) As far as the suggestion goes, well… I cannot seem to refind it, but within the last 2 or 3 years I ran into a blog where the author set up a electric shock apparatus for himself hooked up to some software. His final post said (or he said when I asked, I forget) that he stopped because he wound up training himself to not use it and it was too aversive to put on.
I don’t know if you’re being serious here, but I am.
Beware of shock collars. Dogs have much thicker skin than humans, it’s more loosely attached to the underlying tissue, and it’s covered with fur. A mild zap for a dog might be too dangerous to apply to a human neck. I suggest contacting your local BDSM community for advice on where and how to safely give yourself electric shocks. They may also be able to advise on ways of making it impossible to take off until the time is up. Although, as I’ve said in a top-level comment to this post, whatever the setup, the conditionality between behaviour and reward is an exercise in role-playing. In reality you can eat and drink whatever you want whenever you want, and you are choosing to imagine a connection with doing your Anki work.
More importantly, with conditioning, there’s always the question of what exactly are you doing? (Particularly acute in cases of positive punishment like electroshock.) As far as the suggestion goes, well… I cannot seem to refind it, but within the last 2 or 3 years I ran into a blog where the author set up a electric shock apparatus for himself hooked up to some software. His final post said (or he said when I asked, I forget) that he stopped because he wound up training himself to not use it and it was too aversive to put on.