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09-09-2005, 01:45 PM
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Is happyness an additive property?
Warren Buffett argues quite convicingly that it is. Benjamin Franklin equally convincingly that it is not.
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09-09-2005, 03:01 PM
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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.
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09-09-2005, 03:30 PM
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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.
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09-09-2005, 03:42 PM
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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. [/ QUOTE ] That would be no, then? chez
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09-09-2005, 04:11 PM
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Re: Is happyness an additive property?
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[ QUOTE ] 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. [/ QUOTE ] That would be no, then? chez [/ QUOTE ] I'll stick with "who cares".
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09-09-2005, 06:16 PM
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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. [/ QUOTE ] 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.
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