benelliott comments on Scott Sumner on Utility vs Happiness [Link] - Less Wrong Discussion
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Maximizing (non-steeply-discounted) total life happiness does imply trying to survive.
Basing public policy on happiness research sounds terrible to me, but I would expect that most individuals could become significantly happier without compromising other values if they knew how.