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The Techno-Humanist Manifesto, Chapter 4: The Life Well-Lived (part 1)

Counterintuitively, happiness is not a good metric of human well-being. A better guide to human progress is whether people can achieve their goals and fulfill their values:

The Techno-Humanist Manifesto, Chapter 4: The Life Well-Lived (part 1)

Counterintuitively, happiness is not a good metric of human well-being. A better guide to human progress is whether people can achieve their goals and fulfill their values:

https://blog.rootsofprogress.org/thm-ch4-the-life-well-lived-part-1

Founder, The Roots of Progress (rootsofprogress.org). I write about the history of technology and the philosophy of progress. Former tech founder.

Will def read 👀 

but have to say that happiness is as abstract of a metric as is goals and values for most people 🤷‍♂️ so they don’t seem to me as good proxies either

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Yeah, read the essay to understand the paradox I'm trying to resolve here. Thanks!