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#191 – Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction
Lex Fridman Podcast
It's Harder to Measure Happiness Than It Is to Measure Comfort
It's harder to measure happiness than it is to measure comfort. In some of the nations where people have access to the most comfort, suicide and mental illness are highest. Some of the happiest cultures are actually some of the ones that are in materially lame environments. And so we can see that when you look at the techno-optimist idea that we have better lives than Egyptian pharaohs and kings,. What they're largely looking at is how comfortable our beds are or how comfortable the transportation systems are.
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