Eugine_Nier comments on Abandoning Cached Selves to Re-Write My Source Code Partially, I've Become Unstable - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 12 October 2012 12:41:31AM 0 points [-]

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

The problem is that this is true whether the cause makes the world better or worse.

Comment author: diegocaleiro 12 October 2012 05:17:29AM 0 points [-]

To quote Dennett on Happiness is a kind of practical joke I guess.

Dennett is magnificent, brilliant, engaging, fully white bearded, santa-claus like.

The one thing he is not is a happiness expert, specially a first person happiness expert.

In fact, of my intelectual idols (Chronologically listed): Nietzsche, Russell, Woody Allen, Miyazaki, Dennett, Roger Waters, Bostrom, Yudkoskwy. I would consider only Russell and Allen have interesting linguistic lessons with regards to happiness.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 12 October 2012 08:03:42PM 0 points [-]

To quote Dennett on Happiness is a kind of practical joke I guess.

It was only supposed to be a data point.

I definitely think you should try to take some kind of vacation soon, regardless of your plans for after that.