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by gnosis 5647 days ago
"We should still try to climb to the peak of our local maxima."

Why?
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klochner 5647 days ago
The presumption is that people like to be happy, which I believe is a tautology.
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gnosis 5647 days ago
Happiness doesn't necessarily come from climbing to the top. Some people find the whole ordeal to be rather nasty, for a variety of reasons.
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klochner 5646 days ago
You're free to define your own objective function, it doesn't have to be fame or monetary success.
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CodeMage 5647 days ago
Why what? Why climb? Or why "local maxima"? Or just a general why, for the heck of it? If it's the latter, then my answer would be the following question: Is there any reason not to?
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