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Comment author: cousin_it 01 June 2010 09:52:35PM *  3 points [-]

The blog of Scott Adams (author of Dilbert) is generally quite awesome from a rationalist perspective, but one recent post really stood out for me: Happiness Button.

Suppose humans were born with magical buttons on their foreheads. When someone else pushes your button, it makes you very happy. But like tickling, it only works when someone else presses it. Imagine it's easy to use. You just reach over, press it once, and the other person becomes wildly happy for a few minutes.

What would happen in such a world?

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Comment author: Christian_Szegedy 02 June 2010 09:46:23PM *  9 points [-]

We already have these buttons on LessWrong... ;)

Comment author: cousin_it 02 June 2010 09:59:04PM *  3 points [-]

Karma does make me feel important, but when it comes to happiness karma can't hold a candle to loud music, alcohol and girls (preferably in combination). I wish more people recognized these for the eternal universal values they are. If only someone invented a button to send me some loud music, alcohol and girls, that would be the ultimate startup ever.

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