Is happyness an additive property?
 

Warren Buffett argues quite convicingly that it is. Benjamin Franklin equally convincingly that it is not.
any thoughts.

Re: Is happyness an additive property?
 

Sure, why not? I know some people who are equally addicted to complete misery.

Re: Is happyness an additive property?
 

Either you are jopking or you didn't realize that WW was talking about the Utilitarian concept of using human emotions in a Hedonic Calculus to determine one's actions. It's sophistry if you ask me, as propounded by, as mentioned, the Eudemonist humbug-merchant Jimmy Buffet.

Re: Is happyness an additive property?
 

Enjoy your intellectual masturbation. Such a question is rather pointless since happiness cannot be measured (or often even defined) objectively. If item/situation/condition A makes me X happy, does 1000 of these make me 1000X happy? Who cares.

Re: Is happyness an additive property?
 

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Enjoy your intellectual masturbation. Such a question is rather pointless since happiness cannot be measured (or often even defined) objectively. If item/situation/condition A makes me X happy, does 1000 of these make me 1000X happy? Who cares.

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That would be no, then?

chez

Re: Is happyness an additive property?
 

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Enjoy your intellectual masturbation. Such a question is rather pointless since happiness cannot be measured (or often even defined) objectively. If item/situation/condition A makes me X happy, does 1000 of these make me 1000X happy? Who cares.

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That would be no, then?

chez

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I'll stick with "who cares".

Re: Is happyness an additive property?
 

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Either you are jopking or you didn't realize that WW was talking about the Utilitarian concept of using human emotions in a Hedonic Calculus to determine one's actions. It's sophistry if you ask me, as propounded by, as mentioned, the Eudemonist humbug-merchant Jimmy Buffet.

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I believe most psychological research suggests that this isn't true at all. We seem to judge experiences by Kahneman's Peak-end rule, not by the formula "sum(happiness) - sum(awfulness)". Oddly enough, one of the studies that corrobrated this theory consisted of sticking a camera up people's asses for varying lengths of time.

Re: Is happyness an additive property?
 

It is, but only so economists can make sense and apply the idea in nonsensical ways.