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Or y’know, lack of sex if that’s yr thing

edit: someone out here doesn’t understand that aces exist

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My shrink says that’s what’s bringing me down

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Then you better find a whore.

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And say your life’s a bore.

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It’s simple addition. Add extra food and you’ll be alright.

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15 points

With enough money, you can buy all the rest.

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Pretty hard to buy P.

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enough

I think you underestimate the extremes we could go to with the directive to keep adding money until it works.

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Literally almost everyone who has money naturally has a high P value

Trust fund babies talking about how hard they’ve worked is a meme for a reason

I bet there’s some interesting analysis that could prove that p can be partially defined by m

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Source?

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I knew this would come up, and you are absolutely right. But apart of the bourgeoisie who really have some parts of their brains wired differently, us “normal” people even if we are successful we suffer from imposter syndrome or burn out.

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P is the actual happiness. That she didn’t quantify

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I dunno. With enough money, “yes men” can be employed to tell me how much I deserve to be the boss, and books I’m uncomfortable with can be removed from my local library. /s

Edit: But I would never do that. Simple delusions of grandeur are easier to achieve and have fewer network externalities.

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drugs. probably x will do it

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That’s the short form equation that ignores environmental pressure, the long form has a separate term that accounts for shelter and sentience as a factor between 0 and 1, as well as a quotient for empathy with a numerator of associate happiness.

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The real fantasy is clearly a VR suit with a food tube and a lack of perception that you’re in the VR suit with a food tube.

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The Bellman Equation describes a “principle of optimality" for decision making.

Essentially, choose the action that maximizes your expected future “value.” The problem is how you choose your value function, and how you estimate the outcomes of your actions.

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