taw comments on Local Ordinances of Fun - Less Wrong

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Comment author: taw 20 June 2012 02:37:38AM 1 point [-]

That's a difficult question to answer since amount of Internet use correlated with age, wealth, education level, location, language used, employment status, and a lot of things which might have very big impact on people's happiness.

I could give the cached answer that "if it didn't make them happier they wouldn't be using Internet", but there are obvious problems with this line of reasoning.

Comment author: BlazeOrangeDeer 25 June 2012 08:51:21AM 1 point [-]

Especially since the chached answer fails to explain addiction, which is quite possible with the internet