As far as I know, automatically trimming safety buffer happens daily.
@kenoubi
Yeah, I skimmed that. Sounds all reasonable. Iâll give that a try, sometime.
@gretchen
Good to know. Highly counterintuitive, bcs. the user gets the action/ânothing happensâ experience, which makes him doubt his sanity.
Halfplane, seriously?
@adamwolf
Yeah, I hope itâll work similar for me with âwasted timeâ. I know exactly what âwasted timeâ is and when I have done that activitiy. I know itâs bad for me, but I (or whatever moron is in charge at that point) very much donât care in the moment. I just care what feels good in that moment (not even to maximise pleasure, but to mainain a very comfortable braindead state (sometimes a flow state researching/wiki-binging into something obscure)). I donât even try to rationalise it. The (opportunity) costs and long-term effects of these activities are hidden from me. Having the scary high price of 90$ to pay should be shocking enough to get me out of this, so that I can deflect these lesser selves to do something pleasant, that is slightly less easy and comfortable, but often just as pleasant or more (like exercise).
Iâm not clear on what happens, when you enter a hugely negative data point for do-less goals.
Say, my goal is to do something for only â1â unit a day.
I happen to have no buffer.
Now I enter a value of â10â. Assuming I have âno mercyâ disabled, would I get then a buffer of 7 again (the âweek flat spotâ, that I just found out about, by thinking through this scenario).
Would I pay twice now and recommitt with a buffer of 14-10=4?
If I have âno mercyâ enabled, would I pay 10 times (or infinity times, bcs. even subunits derail you)?
I guess, I would pay only once, bcs. thatâs the only thing that seems to work with âno-mercyâ and get the full buffer.
Can subunits derail you or do I have to be 1 >= over/under a line?
The mechanic of the âweek of flat spotâ is hidden in the âgoal pageâ and you only get to know about itâs existence, if you already realize, that you donât want it. I never understood, why I had so much buffer after derailments before. The name âno mercyâ sounds much more scary, than I actually upon reflection find it, since I never expected that free week buffer in the first place.
I before I just saw âno mercyâ and âthoughtâ to myself âthat sounds horrible and probably is related to not being able to veto derailment charges, since itâs grouped with another option, that obviously isâ.
Maybe âno mercyâ should be ticked on by default?
Thereâs nothing magical about 1 unit (you can actually rescale your goal if you decide you like to measure your weight in stone instead of kg or whatever), but you arenât supposed to derail more than once at a time.
The point of this, as I understand it, is that 1 week is also the akrasia horizon, so if you just derailed, youâre allowed to decide that the goal is a bad idea and archive it immediately. Personally I would always leave it on because I donât trust myself to pick exactly the right goal (or for something not to change that makes it no longer the right goal).
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@dreev, this should go in the homepage quotes 
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I default my goals to âno mercyâ and if life changes, I untick the box just before the derailment so as to get a week instead. Kind of like a slow-moving âuncle!â button for the goal itself.