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Only if you could successfully argue that anyone would kill themselves in those circumstances. I won't hold my breath.


Who wouldn't want to be the happiest person to ever live? That seems to be a happy moment in itself.


Because there's the possibility of being even happier. Just because we're happy, doesn't mean we're not greedy.


Aha! So a better happiness equation is both cumulative and a ratio.

If G is the cumulative number of good moments and B is bad moments, happiness is (rounding the happiness ratio to 3):

happiness = (G/B-3)*G = G^2/B-3G

Seems there could be a physics of happiness from this equation.




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