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{{comic | number = 4982 | date = August 3, 2018 | title = quantified-self | image = 1533302954-20180803.png | votey = 153330310820180803after.png | titletext = You really have to pity all the people who lived perfect lives without any of their peers finding out. }} ==Explanation== {{incomplete}} ==Transcript== {{Computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :Should human beings strive for pleasure or for fulfillment? :That's a math question, not a philosophy question. :Life of pleasure: Probability of success is 80% life satisfaction if successful is 5 on a scale from o to 10. Probability-weighted value is :Life of fulfillment: Probability of successis 20%. Life satisfaction if successful is 10. Probability-weighted :Value is 0.2 * 10 = 2. :So, no life strategy gets you even halfway to the maximum value, :Muddle through probability of success is 100%. Life satisfaction if successful = 7. :There is one. :"i tell you, we are here on earth to fart around." -kurt vonnegut :Did you know he trained as a scientist before writing books? :Ro :smbc-comics.com ==Votey Transcript== {{Computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :Wait, why are we allowed to read vonnegut? We're just kids for christ's sake. {{comic discussion}} [[Category:Comics tagged philosophy]][[Category:Comics tagged mathematics]]
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