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by nwatson 2899 days ago
Lifestyles, philosophies, religions can optimize for happiness or truth ... pick one. The HT theorem.
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Or you could optimize for happiness-truth product. This would lead you to lifestyles, philosophies, and religions which remove any negative correlation between happiness and truth (which I would argue have no inherent, unavoidable relationship with each other).
Matt Ridley, the author of the Rational Optimist, disagrees.