Responsibility Exchange .COM
Jan. 2nd, 2003 11:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guslI just had an idea: it might be interesting to have other people remind me to follow my resolutions. It's too easy for me to tell myself "oh, I'll do that later", but when other people depend on me, then I'll try pretty hard to be responsible.
Maybe I should design a mechanism:
So, for every big thing I want to get done, I write down what needs to be done, and both me and my partner(s) get rewarded if I do it, but if I don't do it, we both get nothing. Honor system.
I would probably have to fund my own venture, along with my partner. So, you could say my partner is investing in me. I can't cheat him, and he can't cheat me. And we together can't cheat the system either because as a person becomes more reliable, the return for investing on him becomes small. Basically, each procrastinator has to put in more than he can take out. Investors winnings must come from two sources: the procrastinator or from negative investors (which I'm not sure would be included in this model).
Suppose I promise to lose $10 if I don't finish my homework by tonight. If it's believed that the probability of me doing my homework is 10%, then there could be a prize of $95, to be split among investors if I do it. My co-investors would cheer me on, help me out, etc, and I would feel bad letting them down. In the case of friends investing on you, it should be agreed beforehand that things will not be taken personally.
Can you suggest any improvements? I could use some.
Right now I feel like a junk bond.
Isn't life more fun when it becomes a game? Call me irrational.
Do you know the joke where the Portuguese man accidentally drops a $10 on a public toilet? He decides $10 isn't worth it, so he throws in another $10 because $20 is worth it. This is what I'm trying to do. I always knew there was something in those genes besides the literal-mindedness.
Maybe I should design a mechanism:
So, for every big thing I want to get done, I write down what needs to be done, and both me and my partner(s) get rewarded if I do it, but if I don't do it, we both get nothing. Honor system.
I would probably have to fund my own venture, along with my partner. So, you could say my partner is investing in me. I can't cheat him, and he can't cheat me. And we together can't cheat the system either because as a person becomes more reliable, the return for investing on him becomes small. Basically, each procrastinator has to put in more than he can take out. Investors winnings must come from two sources: the procrastinator or from negative investors (which I'm not sure would be included in this model).
Suppose I promise to lose $10 if I don't finish my homework by tonight. If it's believed that the probability of me doing my homework is 10%, then there could be a prize of $95, to be split among investors if I do it. My co-investors would cheer me on, help me out, etc, and I would feel bad letting them down. In the case of friends investing on you, it should be agreed beforehand that things will not be taken personally.
Can you suggest any improvements? I could use some.
Right now I feel like a junk bond.
Isn't life more fun when it becomes a game? Call me irrational.
Do you know the joke where the Portuguese man accidentally drops a $10 on a public toilet? He decides $10 isn't worth it, so he throws in another $10 because $20 is worth it. This is what I'm trying to do. I always knew there was something in those genes besides the literal-mindedness.