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Z_M_Davis comments on Book: Psychiatry and the Human Condition - Less Wrong

10 Post author: patrissimo 23 March 2009 07:14PM

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Comment author: Z_M_Davis 24 March 2009 05:17:34AM 3 points [-]

Hunter gatherer societies are the happiest [...] while [...] societies such as our own lie somewhere in between.

Does anyone else read this as an argument against happiness?

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Comment author: pjeby 24 March 2009 08:54:45PM 2 points [-]

So, are you saying that thinking how much better you are than Ug doesn't give you pleasure?

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Comment author: pjeby 25 March 2009 07:24:51PM 0 points [-]

That depends on whether you consider unhappiness/pain to be distinct from pleasure/happiness. Your original comment wasn't particularly clear on this point.