Or y'know, lack of sex if that's yr thing

edit: someone out here doesn't understand that aces exist

With enough money, you can buy all the rest.

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The real fantasy is clearly a VR suit with a food tube and a lack of perception that you're in the VR suit with a food tube.

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That's the short form equation that ignores environmental pressure, the long form has a separate term that accounts for shelter and sentience as a factor between 0 and 1, as well as a quotient for empathy with a numerator of associate happiness.

Seems to me this is more like the equation that maximizes happiness for people who don't have the mentioned things.

Plenty of people have food, money and sex, rightfully obtained from their perception, yet are still very unhappy, even suicidal. This is what you think you need. It's not even necessarily what you need.

It is not an equation

The Bellman Equation describes a “principle of optimality" for decision making.

Essentially, choose the action that maximizes your expected future "value." The problem is how you choose your value function, and how you estimate the outcomes of your actions.

Or a moneyless society. Each their own

lol, some of this guy's comics are just ridiculously funny.

...encompass?

Oh I definitely need some strife. It can just be me vs situation like my current position trying to run an efficient dispensary, but I need the challenge way more than the perception of earning or owning. I gotta be solving problems and completing tasks. I can't live idly.

Is the word “from” missing from the equation explanation? Should it be “.. that you have earned FROM the first three?”