Actually that sounds like a good idea not just because you’d get more accurate information about how often you exercise, but also for the following reason: what often happens (at least to me) when I’m tracking something I want to do is that when I have to put in a failed instance I feel guilty. Due to Goodhart’s Imperius this then disincetivizes me to track the behavior in the first place (esp if I’m failing often) because I get negative feedback from the tracking, so the simplest solution from the monkey brain’s perspective is to stop the tracking. But if you get the lotus whether you did the thing or not, conditional on you entering that information into the app, then that gives the proper incentive to track. So I would predict this would work well.
Actually that sounds like a good idea not just because you’d get more accurate information about how often you exercise, but also for the following reason: what often happens (at least to me) when I’m tracking something I want to do is that when I have to put in a failed instance I feel guilty. Due to Goodhart’s Imperius this then disincetivizes me to track the behavior in the first place (esp if I’m failing often) because I get negative feedback from the tracking, so the simplest solution from the monkey brain’s perspective is to stop the tracking. But if you get the lotus whether you did the thing or not, conditional on you entering that information into the app, then that gives the proper incentive to track. So I would predict this would work well.