Venkatesh Rao

It might be with spelling out what “fun” means and what proportion of the time your audience should expect to experience it.

I think everyone knows what fun feels like at least a little. I think it’s likely anyone in the audience can hit a baseline of feeling more fun than they’ve ever felt, all the time Fun isnt just energetic. Tranquility is fun

Hm, but are you saying it's possible to have positive valence at all times? I think this is *maybe* possible given advances in technology, but impossible otherwise. Shivering Buddha, sweating Buddha, and all that.

Talking about “all the time” gets tricky (eg having a negative experience in a non-lucid dream) but I think you can get it well over 99%

Hm, interesting. This is fairly far from my experience. Do you personally know anyone who has done this? Ideally someone who doesn't make a living by convincing people that they have.

Yup several. They’re all quite successful in their own right, rarely talk about it unless you’re really aggressive in asking them exactly what they feel and when, and all took similar paths if you squint

One secret is happiness billionaires and billionaires are often the same people, and the former came first. The inequality is even more extreme than people realize

It’s actually not that surprising. To become a billionaire you need to hold an asset (usually equity) wayyy past when others would cash out. There’s not many people who would do that, and the subset who would tend to be life-satisfaction outliers already