Oh I definitely need some strife. It can just be me vs situation like my current position trying to run an efficient dispensary, but I need the challenge way more than the perception of earning or owning. I gotta be solving problems and completing tasks. I can’t live idly.
Seems to me this is more like the equation that maximizes happiness for people who don’t have the mentioned things.
Plenty of people have food, money and sex, rightfully obtained from their perception, yet are still very unhappy, even suicidal. This is what you think you need. It’s not even necessarily what you need.
With enough money, you can buy all the rest.
Pretty hard to buy P.
I dunno. With enough money, “yes men” can be employed to tell me how much I deserve to be the boss, and books I’m uncomfortable with can be removed from my local library. /s
Edit: But I would never do that. Simple delusions of grandeur are easier to achieve and have fewer network externalities.
enough
I think you underestimate the extremes we could go to with the directive to keep adding money until it works.
P is the actual happiness. That she didn’t quantify
drugs. probably x will do it
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The real fantasy is clearly a VR suit with a food tube and a lack of perception that you’re in the VR suit with a food tube.
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Is the word “from” missing from the equation explanation? Should it be “… that you have earned FROM the first three?”
No, it might help to add a “the” before “perception”.
Or y’know, lack of sex if that’s yr thing
edit: someone out here doesn’t understand that aces exist
It’s simple addition. Add extra food and you’ll be alright.
My shrink says that’s what’s bringing me down
Then you better find a whore.
And say your life’s a bore.
Ayuh yuh yuh!
So quit my whining 'cause it’s bringing her down
The Bellman Equation describes a “principle of optimality" for decision making.
Essentially, choose the action that maximizes your expected future “value.” The problem is how you choose your value function, and how you estimate the outcomes of your actions.
Or a moneyless society. Each their own
That’s the short form equation that ignores environmental pressure, the long form has a separate term that accounts for shelter and sentience as a factor between 0 and 1, as well as a quotient for empathy with a numerator of associate happiness.
Perception is the hardest that destroy the equation. All have their personal own, there isn’t a universal right perception, common is living a lie to keep going.
It should be p(f+s+m)
But maximizing the lie is a perfectly cromulent way to achieve happiness.
It is not an equation
lol, some of this guy’s comics are just ridiculously funny.
…encompass?
