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Moment 153: Happiness Engineer Explains The Exact Formula For Happiness: Mo Gowdat

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Uh So what is the cause of unhappiness as you see it, especially if you're building sort of machine learning applications that are gonna You know. um solve, you know, make people arrive at contentment or happiness in a personalised way, we must be able to Know what's causing this

Lack of So so happiness is very predictable. Okay, if you look back at any point in your life where you ever felt happy. There is one commonality across all of those moments that can actually be doc be documented in a mathematical equation. Okay.

You've never felt happy. Because of a specific event in your life. Okay. Uh take for example rain. Rain doesn't make you happy or unhappy. There is no inherent value of happiness in rain.

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