Hm define want? Revealed preferences vs stated preferences seems tricky here
Have a friend who puts it this way: happiness is what you feel when you're getting what you want. So wanting to feel happy is almost a type error. What you want is what you want, and happiness is a side effect of getting that, not something to chase for its own sake.https://twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1127351563486253056 …
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Neither of those gets at what I mean by "want." I mean something more like "hunger for." E.g. I think lots of people are hungry for love but it won't be either a stated or revealed preference, for lots of reasons.
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You can experience happiness just through thought, or seeing beauty, or other things. Getting what you wanted begets satisfaction, not always happiness. Unless what you wanted is MDMA :)
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What if wanting _things_ is the type error?
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An interesting post on this: http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2016/02/aquinas-vanilla-sky-and-nozicks.html …
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