It may be inevitable that in the limit case, what you want and what makes you happy diverge completely, simply because x can be optimized more effectively if you're not also trying to optimize some orthogonal y.
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What you want is not identical with what makes you happy. Though the article doesn't mention it, the scary thing is that as technology for delivering what you want becomes more refined, the two may *increasingly* diverge.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-01/what-we-want-doesn-t-always-make-us-happy …
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If so, we'll need (and we'll surely develop) social antibodies to protect us. E.g. we'll have to teach kids explicitly to avoid the kind of things you want, but don't make you happy.
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Parents already warn kids about drugs, but few realize yet that this is just one instance of a more general lesson.
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Hard to say how it plays out in the long term. Do we end up with a society that's 95% addicts and 5% people who understand the danger and resist it? Or does it play out like smoking, where the addiction spreads wildly at first, then shrinks?
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The good news is, if we establish a general antibody against things you want that don't make you happy, it will work against many different smokings simultaneously. The bad news is that it will need to.
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Happiness happens after hardship (i.e. a mother giving birth), easier making technologies may not bring happiness
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like the famous poet once said: “you can't always get what you want but if you try sometimes you just might find you get what you need”
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Micu Jaegercius?
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Any theory which tends to put the cause of happiness outside the individual should be looked at with skepticism. Incentive based approach is asking the wrong question. Happiness is elusive- acceptance is the key word- look inward, look detached at yourself- hard.
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Have to walk a tight rope here. Not promoting pseudoscience. But ancient mystics( all faiths), old bhuddist seers were on to something when they said look inside. Neuroscience/modern psychology may come to same conclusion. Being detached does not mean being escapist.
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