(happy for short periods of time before total destruction occurs of course, let's not get too optimistic)
life can never be very good, and only crazy people are very happy haha https://www.edge.org/conversation/june_gruber-misunderstanding-positive-emotion …pic.twitter.com/fpo9GC44hN
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I think it's a bit stronger and funnier than that
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basically there is a bell curve, most people are vaguely ok, and the tail of suffering > tail of extreme happiness
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"bored and irritated" as the summit of human flourishing
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I just think it's good to realize that human life is inherently limited in its subjective positive possibilities
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Have you spent any time thinking about happiness as a social/display emotion, subject to game theory?
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totally! specifically, a display of relative status I think
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first they shit on empathy, now positive emotions, what's next? sex? insight?
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they're not shitting on positive emotions, just realizing that true sustained happiness is impossible
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Once accidentally watched a movie where Goldie Hawn, a loved housewife cracks up/gets hospitalized due to too much happiness
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Surprisingly good plot for otherwise boring movie.
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