Bugmaster comments on Steelmanning Inefficiency - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 03 July 2014 12:17PM

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Comment author: Bugmaster 04 July 2014 11:13:43PM 7 points [-]

The modern economy has been transformed by efficiency drives, doubling every 35 years or so. But it's clear that human happiness has not been doubling every 35 years or so.

I don't know, is it ? You just told us that happiness is nearly impossible to measure, so how do you know whether it increased or decreased and by how much ?