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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Or y'know, lack of sex if that's yr thing

edit: someone out here doesn't understand that aces exist

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My shrink says that’s what’s bringing me down

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then you better find a whore.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And say your life's a bore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So quit my whining 'cause it's bringing her down

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ayuh yuh yuh!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

It’s simple addition. Add extra food and you’ll be alright.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With enough money, you can buy all the rest.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

enough I think you underestimate the extremes we could go to with the directive to keep adding money until it works.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Literally almost everyone who has money naturally has a high P value

Trust fund babies talking about how hard they've worked is a meme for a reason

I bet there's some interesting analysis that could prove that p can be partially defined by m

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I knew this would come up, and you are absolutely right. But apart of the bourgeoisie who really have some parts of their brains wired differently, us “normal” people even if we are successful we suffer from imposter syndrome or burn out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

P is the actual happiness. That she didn't quantify

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I dunno. With enough money, "yes men" can be employed to tell me how much I deserve to be the boss, and books I'm uncomfortable with can be removed from my local library. /s

Edit: But I would never do that. Simple delusions of grandeur are easier to achieve and have fewer network externalities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

drugs. probably x will do it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Hover text:

The real fantasy is clearly a VR suit with a food tube and a lack of perception that you're in the VR suit with a food tube.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's the short form equation that ignores environmental pressure, the long form has a separate term that accounts for shelter and sentience as a factor between 0 and 1, as well as a quotient for empathy with a numerator of associate happiness.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It is not an equation

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The Bellman Equation describes a “principle of optimality" for decision making.

Essentially, choose the action that maximizes your expected future "value." The problem is how you choose your value function, and how you estimate the outcomes of your actions.

Image of the Bellman Equation from Wikipedia

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

...encompass?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Seems to me this is more like the equation that maximizes happiness for people who don't have the mentioned things.

Plenty of people have food, money and sex, rightfully obtained from their perception, yet are still very unhappy, even suicidal. This is what you think you need. It's not even necessarily what you need.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Or a moneyless society. Each their own

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

lol, some of this guy's comics are just ridiculously funny.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Oh I definitely need some strife. It can just be me vs situation like my current position trying to run an efficient dispensary, but I need the challenge way more than the perception of earning or owning. I gotta be solving problems and completing tasks. I can't live idly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Perception is the hardest that destroy the equation. All have their personal own, there isn't a universal right perception, common is living a lie to keep going.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It should be p(f+s+m)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

But maximizing the lie is a perfectly cromulent way to achieve happiness.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is the word “from” missing from the equation explanation? Should it be “.. that you have earned FROM the first three?”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

No, it might help to add a "the" before "perception".