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Artaxerxes comments on Instrumental Rationality Questions Thread - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Username 25 August 2015 11:22:21PM 1 point [-]

Scott Adams tweeted that you can't be with someone less happy than you. I'm trying it anyway.

Does anyone have any experience with this? In particular, is there a way to not always sacrifice my happiness for theirs at rapidly diminishing rates of return until we are equally (un)happy?

Comment author: Artaxerxes 26 August 2015 10:34:07AM 1 point [-]

As long as the other person is still pretty happy, it doesn't really matter too much if you're happier. That's not to say that things can't go wrong, but it's not a hard rule that people must be of equal happiness levels in order to be together successfully.