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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How can one learn the general lesson of avoiding things that one wants but don’t make u happy ? For grownups too ?
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