army1987 comments on Not for the Sake of Pleasure Alone - Less Wrong

36 Post author: lukeprog 11 June 2011 11:21PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 25 September 2012 10:08:50PM 0 points [-]

I think that the present-you's definition of "happy" is closer to the present-me's definition of "satisfaction." I generally think of happiness as an emotion one feels, and satisfaction as the state where a large amount of your preferences are satisfied.

Yes. (I think the standard way of distinguishing them is to call yours hedonic happiness and mine eudaimonic happiness, or something like that.)