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by dthunt 4373 days ago
However, if you know that, and can put a price on your naive happiness, you can make a choice about whether you'd like to develop skills that will help you in a large number of areas of your life.

So, yes. Sacrifice that naive happiness. Sacrifice your willingness to believe things merely because you want them to be true. Sacrifice your false confidence. Use your better aim to set a wiser course.
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tormeh 4373 days ago
A wiser course to unhappiness. I volunteer to give up some rationality to gain some happiness. If I can get less procrastination in the deal as well, then that would be great.
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dthunt 4373 days ago
Remember that you're trading a fixed amount of happiness here for some sort of return (which might be less than the happiness than you sacrifice).

What sort of happiness trades are you willing to make at that price? Intelligence that measures as a 15 IQ point boost? 5 million dollars? Everything's got a price. At some point, sacrificing those things IS worth the return.

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tormeh 4372 days ago
I was thinking the other way around, actually.
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