Combining constraint-based punishment, specifically employing the case with the maximal punishment value 35, with punishment for going away from the reward, as described before (column 4 in panels A,B), did not provide better results, remaining in the range of an average of 13 14 steps to the goal with around 90% of successful trials.
"If Europe doesn't deliver on growth and jobs, if Europe is seen as the place for austerity, if Europe is not seen as a hope, as progress but as a constraint, as a punishment, as a pain, then the European project will be not only criticised but rejected.
Of importance, however, is that punishment at constraint works rather reliably over a large parameter range and that the variances have been drastically reduced.
One can observe that punishment at constraints in general improves rate and speed of convergence.
In this way, we are not only able to guarantee the convergence in the formula of K 1 divided by λ k, but also to play a critical role of punishment to the constraint condition.
A simple version of this approach identifies certain side-constraints to which our pursuit of the consequential benefits of punishment must be subject: constraints that forbid, for instance, the deliberate punishment of the innocent, or the excessively harsh punishment of the guilty.
Several barriers to incident reporting have been identified such as time constraints, complex forms, fear of punishment, shame, a lack of education and a lack of feedback.
(Further non-consequentialist constraints might also be placed on the severity and modes of punishment that can be permitted: constraints either flowing from an account of just what offenders render themselves liable to, or from other values external to the system of punishment).
This problem can be mitigated best by applying punishment also at the constraints as described in the methods section.
Even if such side-constraints can be securely grounded, however, consequentialist theories of punishment face further objections, focused on the moral character of punishment within those constraints.
