AnnaSalamon comments on Extreme Rationality: It's Not That Great - Less Wrong

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Comment author: prase 10 April 2009 12:37:45PM 3 points [-]

I would expect very little correlation with salaries. And about self-reported happiness - I often think that knowing about all biases, memory imperfections and all that stuff, and about how difficult it is to decide correctly, makes me substantially less happy.

Comment author: AnnaSalamon 11 April 2009 03:32:56AM *  1 point [-]

prase, is happiness much of a goal for you? If so, have you tried to apply rationality toward it, e.g. by reading the academic research on happiness (Jonathan Haidt's "The Happiness Hypothesis" is a nice summary) and thinking through what might work for you?