Please downvote this post, because I already didn’t meet my goal I set last week of only staying up past 1:30 one night this week. (And I said if I didn’t that people could downvote me and send stern disapproving looks in my general direction)
Note: I have made definite progress in the bedtime situation, just not to my goal yet!
I’ll make another post later about the other things I’m working on this week. :)
Pfft. I’m I’m not giving you validation for pretentious self flagellation and hand wringing. That behavior is not optimised toward maximising personal development but rather for signalling continued submission to a power structure. It’s a terribly ineffective strategy for making lasting positive change. Grow a pair, set a goal you can meet, meet it and then I’ll give you social validation of the positive kind, not this dubious validation of your virtue for sincerity or shame.
(Approximately my general policy regarding this sort of thing.)
Second the endorsement, but it’s important to understand that the relevant average is the particular animal’s current baseline (not, for example, the average behavior of similar individuals). That is, you look at the behavior you’re getting, and you reward the top N% of behavior along whatever dimension you want to reinforce. Over time the cluster of behaviors will shift in that direction. Keep rewarding the top N% and it will keep shifting in that direction until other factors make that impossible.
Please downvote this post, because I already didn’t meet my goal I set last week of only staying up past 1:30 one night this week. (And I said if I didn’t that people could downvote me and send stern disapproving looks in my general direction)
Note: I have made definite progress in the bedtime situation, just not to my goal yet!
I’ll make another post later about the other things I’m working on this week. :)
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*stern disapproving look*
Pfft. I’m I’m not giving you validation for pretentious self flagellation and hand wringing. That behavior is not optimised toward maximising personal development but rather for signalling continued submission to a power structure. It’s a terribly ineffective strategy for making lasting positive change. Grow a pair, set a goal you can meet, meet it and then I’ll give you social validation of the positive kind, not this dubious validation of your virtue for sincerity or shame.
(Approximately my general policy regarding this sort of thing.)
This seems to contradict the rest of your comment. Did you mean the opposite?
Yes, fixed.
FWIW, the book Don’t Shoot the Dog advocates rewarding animals when they do better than average.
I really recommend that book by the way.
Second the endorsement, but it’s important to understand that the relevant average is the particular animal’s current baseline (not, for example, the average behavior of similar individuals). That is, you look at the behavior you’re getting, and you reward the top N% of behavior along whatever dimension you want to reinforce. Over time the cluster of behaviors will shift in that direction. Keep rewarding the top N% and it will keep shifting in that direction until other factors make that impossible.
Meh, I prefer beeminder.com for this kind of things. Losing real money motivates me much more than losing LW karma.
I’m very disappointed in you.