How strong is your will? You can always just unplug the box the program is running on, so your in-the-moment desires will always have the opportunity to win. S

How strong is your will? You can always just unplug the box the program is running on, so your in-the-moment desires will always have the opportunity to win. So the real question is what kind of disincentive can you bake in that will be stronger than your future self's desire to turn off this mysterious program. If you like money, you could have the program generate a crypto wallet but don't save the private key to disk. Program it to refund any coins sent to it after 30 days, and now you have a financial incentive to keep that process running, since if it ever loses power or otherwise terminates, your money disappears.