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Passion (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with Joshua Fox)

Minds Almost Meeting

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The Word of Happiness Is Our True Passion

You might think we'd get data about this from people who had a whole experience of things they thought they wanted and then later on figured out whether they did want it or not. But most people don't actually think that that's going to be very reliable data. I feel like, like Aristotle says, well, young people are characteristically sort of rash and imprudent. And old people are characteristic cowardly and prudent. It's just about the time of their life right? The word of happiness is our true passion, the one that doesn't go away on one examination maybe that's what we learn with our lives is we really are cowards but why not just think it changes

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