But when it came to long-term commitments (you know, commitments with strings attached), I couldn't think about them.
StickK has different tools, known as "commitment devices," to incentivize its users, and Orszag uses one that makes a credit-card donation to an "anti-charity" — some cause that he finds loathsome — if he doesn't reach his goal.
One such tool, known as commitment devices, has been shown to induce people to become more future-oriented.
A selection of the best places to tie the knot, from the giddy heights of romance to the places known for commitment.
Odysseus's ship mast was arguably the first known "pre-commitment device".
Two-hybrid screens are sometimes referred to as functional screens, since interacting proteins might give a functional hint if at least one of the partners has a known functional commitment in a well understood signaling pathway.
If you knew what commitments I'd incurred, you would laugh.
"The aim is to teach students how to make decisions and take responsibility to know their commitments and obligations," he said.
As soon as it no longer knows its commitments to be useful, i.e., leading to fulfillment of some goal, and practically possible, an agent is able to undo these commitments.
