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David Pinsof — Everything is Bullshit (EP.161)

Infinite Loops

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The Function of Happiness

"I know it makes me happy. And yet, I do not want to do it," he says of happiness. "That was when it dawned on me, wow, I must not actually want to be happy." He writes: "If happiness isn't necessary for motivation, then what is it doing? What is its function?" The better you get at predicting how things are going to be, the less you need happiness, he says.

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