why r ur goals important

Because I chose them, JDB.

why did u choose them

Because I find them to be fulfilling to the things that I value.

what makes things have value to you?

Do they make me happy

yeah but why

At a basal level, there are things that are detrimental and beneficial and those have short and long term impacts. Having identified the various factors in my life, I balance the ratios to avoid fatal short term detriment and collect short and long term benefit.

u didn't really answer my question

Happiness is entirely dependent on the individual

Yes, I did.

don't think you did

Hmm..

How about we think of this from an AI perspective?

Let's say happiness is your reward function

You want to maximize this

How do we define happiness?

Because I think happiness is a sham.

That's a good one. I think happiness is a result from having your needs met

'feeling good' should be the reward function

From an AI perspective happiness would be fulfilling the function it was made to do

Define happiness in meow currency

Then why not take up narcotics?

u could

Wow

Good one Xy

Now we're getting somewhere

@Nawalter Jizney NYAN IS MEOW RAWR !!!!!

Let's say we're agents destined to maximize happiness. We all have different environments and are setup in a different way so we're good/bad in different things

But happiness is not defined.

You could try to sustain a lifestyle of drugs and partying, but that will be short-lived

It's easily confused with bliss and pleasure.

But seriously though, why not take up narcotics

hmm?

@Nawalter Jizney That might be what we need. Currently narcotics are seen as "bad"

You can be fatally overdosed with narcotics and therefore be blissed out *for the rest of your life*.

But they might be the answer if we develop a certain narcotic that really cures your unhappiness without negative effects

I mean addiction is garbage obviously

Again, this is based on "happiness"

@Xychotic What is happiness?

Google says: feeling or showing pleasure or contentment.