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benelliott comments on Scott Sumner on Utility vs Happiness [Link] - Less Wrong Discussion

7 Post author: Nic_Smith 12 January 2011 08:14PM

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 17 January 2011 06:45:03AM 1 point [-]

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.