

If you're serious about not eating a bag of Oreos your best bet is to not have a bag of Oreos to eat. It's just that the net present value of tomorrow's weight loss is hyperbolically discounted in favor of the carbohydrate rush of tonight's Oreos. > It's not that you don't want to lose weight when you raid your Oreo stash in the middle of the night.

Cory Doctorow gave a good talk about using Ulysses pacts in the tech industry. You simply need to remove the ability to make defined classes of bad decisions by binding the company's future decision making capability with a Ulysses pact.

make it increasingly difficult to enforce ethical decisions
