Uncertainty

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uncertainty

Title text: There's no way to *really* know if this comic is funny, so probably the best thing is to send it to other people for confirmation.

Votey

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How can you be certain you've lived a good life.

It's literally impossible.

A good life is obviously a life made of lots of goodness.

In order to get the sum

Of total goodness, you have to integrate

Goodness over lifespan.

Because the future is unpredictable you can't use an equation. There is no hope of a precise answer.

So the only way to know you have a good life is to self-assess goodness at smaller and smaller particular moments.

The problem is that measuring goodness alters the amount of goodness of a given moment!

So, yeah, maybe you can measure the goodness of a macro piece of time, like a year or maybe a month or a week without messing it up. But moments remain unknowable.

Humans therefore exist in a perpetual state of hedonic uncertainty this is a fundamental aspect of the universe that can't be altered.

What if you're some kind of freak who derives joy directly from the act of measurement. Then you'd be happy and certain all the time

Maybe this is why engineers never read philosophy.

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You can know disposition or you can know moment, but not both.

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