Uncertainty
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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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- [Describe panel here]
- You can know disposition or you can know moment, but not both.
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