It might be with spelling out what “fun” means and what proportion of the time your audience should expect to experience it.
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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
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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.
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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%
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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I would read more on this. It contradicts my folk theory ‘people who optimise for money tend to do it out of a desire to avoid suffering, unsuccessfully’ and so I’d be interested to hear more.
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Fwiw, I offer a complementary folk theory that lots of people also optimize for lack of money out of a desire to avoid suffering, usually unsuccessfully.
(When I have asked certain questions, friends of mine have basically told me they are doing this.)
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Optimizing for (Lack of) Money (Usually Unsuccessfully) should be the name of something.... a band? a book? Culture ship name? (though that last one should have 'Not' upfront since a Culture Mind would be too smart to do that)
> a band? a book?
I claim if not "same energy" then "adjacent energy" for the title of this 2x2
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