Defining happiness as "guaranteed increased utility" is questionable. It doesn't consider situations of blissful ignorance, where
For simplicity's sake, we could assume a hedonistic view that blissful ignorance about something one does not want is not a loss of utility, defining utility as positive conscious experiences minus negative conscious experiences. But I admit that not everyone will agree with this view of utility.
Also, Aristotle would probably argue that you can have Eudaimonic happiness or sadness about something you don't know about, but Eudaimonia is a bit of a strange concept.
Regardless, given that there is uncertainty about the claims made by the questioner, how would...
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