# Beemind Dreamwidth New Posts **URL:** \ **Category:** Akrasia\ **Created:** [October 8, 2017, 3:54pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beemind-dreamwidth-new-posts/3518 "2017-10-08T15:54:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![dreev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dreev/32/4311_2.png) [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 8:05pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beemind-dreamwidth-new-posts/3518/7 "2017-10-10T20:05:07Z")
> [@philip](#): > > you won’t, because that’d defeat the whole point. I call those loopholes you can drive an ice cream truck through. 🙂 > [@Is daily weight under your direct control?](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/is-daily-weight-under-your-direct-control/1056/5): > > Or just go to work but don’t eat anything till you get home to your scale again! Totally. But this is a loophole I’m not (too) tempted to exploit. It’s an advantage of setting up mechanisms with your own future self that you won’t necessarily exploit every possible way to game the mechanism. It depends where the akrasia lies. Like maybe you use an IFTTT recipe to beemind how often you come within some radius of your gym. It’s a loophole, as I’ve said, big enough to drive an ice cream truck th… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beemind-dreamwidth-new-posts/3518)._