I’ve been working on anti-akrasia software. Currently it allows a person to log their daily activities, and assess how ‘productive’ they have been each day.
What I envision is a program with a modular facility: people can suggest and code modules providing anti-akrasia techniques.
A user would configure the program: my goals are X and Y and the anti-akrasia techniques I am using are A, B and C. Then the user would operate the program for a few days logging their daily activities, including how much closer towards their goals this takes them.
A user could then analyse the success of different techniques, with the software doing the heavy-lifting (i.e. applying bayes to suggest how much the user should believe that a certain technique is effective in helping them achieve their goals). Based on this information, the user would reconfigure the software, varying their goals or changing which techniques they are using.
If the user was willing, anonymous data could be collected to provide wider information on what techniques work and for what kinds of goals.
Any people capable of coding would be able to submit (a) modules for anti-akrasia techniques and (b) modules for analysing the data.
I’ve been working on anti-akrasia software. Currently it allows a person to log their daily activities, and assess how ‘productive’ they have been each day.
What I envision is a program with a modular facility: people can suggest and code modules providing anti-akrasia techniques.
A user would configure the program: my goals are X and Y and the anti-akrasia techniques I am using are A, B and C. Then the user would operate the program for a few days logging their daily activities, including how much closer towards their goals this takes them.
A user could then analyse the success of different techniques, with the software doing the heavy-lifting (i.e. applying bayes to suggest how much the user should believe that a certain technique is effective in helping them achieve their goals). Based on this information, the user would reconfigure the software, varying their goals or changing which techniques they are using.
If the user was willing, anonymous data could be collected to provide wider information on what techniques work and for what kinds of goals.
Any people capable of coding would be able to submit (a) modules for anti-akrasia techniques and (b) modules for analysing the data.
Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated!