at a sex workshop and thinking about a thing @leashless said once about (IIRC) how western neo-tantra fails because people shouldn't approach sex stuff before coming to terms with death
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curious if by "radically not the point" you mean that happiness is a secondary value to (??) or that happiness is straight up not valued compared to other values (and what those other values could be)
happiness is an occasional side effect of the actual, real, good thing, which is perhaps unnameable; in that sense it's a useful indicator to track, but directly optimizing for happiness is goodharting
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"Goodharting", sick reference! Did you invent this verb form just now or have you heard it before?
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it's been popularized common among lesswrong / rationalist types
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