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{{comic | number = 6282 | date = January 27, 2022 | title = uncertainty | image = 1643304834-20220127.png | votey = 164330527520220127after.png | titletext = 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. }} ==Explanation== {{incomplete}} ==Transcript== {{Computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :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. :smbc-comics.com ==Votey Transcript== {{Computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :You can know disposition or you can know moment, but not both. {{comic discussion}}
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