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Comment author: Lumifer 17 June 2016 02:09:29AM 0 points [-]

See also this infographic: http://happierhuman.com/how-to-be-happy/

I see "Go to church", "Don't watch porn", "Don't ruminate", "Don't fantasize". And WTF is "Don't rely on marriage"?

I'll pass.

Comment author: DanArmak 17 June 2016 01:44:59PM 0 points [-]

I think that was the point: these things are correlated with higher (self-reported) happiness, but that doesn't mean they cause it.

Comment author: Lumifer 17 June 2016 02:45:26PM 0 points [-]

The link explicitly says:

Act with intention, informed by science. End up 50% happier.

Blargh.

Comment author: DanArmak 17 June 2016 02:52:52PM 0 points [-]

I meant I read RomeoStevens as intending the link as an an example of some obviously correlation-not-causation cargo-cultish stuff.

Comment author: Lumifer 17 June 2016 02:55:47PM 0 points [-]

But he thinks that "still worth cargo culting on the cheap and easy wins" which implies he believes the causation even if he's treating the mechanism as a black box.

Comment author: gjm 17 June 2016 10:45:17PM 0 points [-]

I took his meaning to be: it's hard to figure out what causes what, but if X is associated with greater happiness and is easy to do, I might as well do X even though it might turn out it's a consequence rather than a cause.

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