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by joe_the_user 6072 days ago
The question of hedonic bias is more complex than the article indicates. I would recommend Game Theory Evolving by Herbert Gintis. Gintis talks about human short-term bias and hyperbolic discounting and shows that this is often not as "irrational" as it seems (look especially at Chapter 11).

Still it's a great discussion, I'd love to see it much more developed, hopefully the article's author reads here.