Having an assistant might cost really little, and you can assign nearly anything that is boring to that person. I tried for a month, and had a great experience, planning on starting more seriously in february, when things get faster in the southern hemisphere, and lack of time becomes a more evil issue than it now is. For those of you living in a rich country that speaks english, get an indian VA. for those like me living in countries with a lot of people, get someone beggining a second college degree in secretariat who lived in New Zeland for $500,00 month, or find a similar deal.
Also, ask friends to read papers of topics they like or understand better than you. Assign smart people to write essays you know they could. Redirect potential partners (job partners, romance partners, friend partners) to other friends when you know they want that, because they will be happy (utilons hurray!) and will give you they geophysics expertise when you need it. Also, there is this thing, they just found out. It’s called the sex-tax. Every time you have sex, you pay a dollar to sex-tax. Then you get 7 points of counterfactual happiness on a 10-100 scale (Layard2005) twice, one instantly, and one after two years, total 14 points. (For comparison, divorce kills 12, death of a close one 8) You get reimbursed about a 2 thousand dollars per month after the second year (you still have to pay the dollar per sex though), and the happiness and money remain for 20 years, though the happiness fades along the way. Anyway, I was talking about the money part. what are you trading this money (dollar per sex) for? Well, you trade it for about 30-60 hours weekly in which you’d otherwise be doing something as boring as cleaning the house, for something as interesting as having an intelligent chat over lemonade with friends. It’s a good deal...… I hope you have guessed by now that the name of the sex-tax is condom, and may your days always be fulfilled. As a final note, consider polyphasic sleep if you are crazy and if it works with your schedule. saves 1000 hours a year. Anything else is negligible compared to those three.. Sex-tax, assistant, polyphasic. Let us hope we come up with other great ones here!
Edit: Hilarious interpretations ensued. I was talking about a hipothetical person who used condoms instead of havin two children separated by two years between their births. The cleaning the house thing is one of the beeping happiness experiments. Spending time with your children is sometimes really awesome, but on average, it is like cleaning the house.
I’m afraid that I’m entirely failing to grok what you mean with the “sex-tax” thing.
I think he’s considering getting married or something, and having his wife do “boring” things “as cleaning the house” in exchange of sex—though if I’m right, IMO that’s an extremely bizarre way to put it.
hahah, the papers on happiness which beep people asking how happy they feel durigna activities average the same amount of happiness for time spent with one’s children and time spent cleaning the house.
not having a kid will avoid the loss of 7 points per child, I was assuming people would father 2 infants, with a two year separation, just to be a little more criptic.
Having an assistant might cost really little, and you can assign nearly anything that is boring to that person. I tried for a month, and had a great experience, planning on starting more seriously in february, when things get faster in the southern hemisphere, and lack of time becomes a more evil issue than it now is. For those of you living in a rich country that speaks english, get an indian VA. for those like me living in countries with a lot of people, get someone beggining a second college degree in secretariat who lived in New Zeland for $500,00 month, or find a similar deal. Also, ask friends to read papers of topics they like or understand better than you. Assign smart people to write essays you know they could. Redirect potential partners (job partners, romance partners, friend partners) to other friends when you know they want that, because they will be happy (utilons hurray!) and will give you they geophysics expertise when you need it.
Also, there is this thing, they just found out. It’s called the sex-tax. Every time you have sex, you pay a dollar to sex-tax. Then you get 7 points of counterfactual happiness on a 10-100 scale (Layard2005) twice, one instantly, and one after two years, total 14 points. (For comparison, divorce kills 12, death of a close one 8) You get reimbursed about a 2 thousand dollars per month after the second year (you still have to pay the dollar per sex though), and the happiness and money remain for 20 years, though the happiness fades along the way. Anyway, I was talking about the money part. what are you trading this money (dollar per sex) for? Well, you trade it for about 30-60 hours weekly in which you’d otherwise be doing something as boring as cleaning the house, for something as interesting as having an intelligent chat over lemonade with friends. It’s a good deal...… I hope you have guessed by now that the name of the sex-tax is condom, and may your days always be fulfilled. As a final note, consider polyphasic sleep if you are crazy and if it works with your schedule. saves 1000 hours a year. Anything else is negligible compared to those three.. Sex-tax, assistant, polyphasic. Let us hope we come up with other great ones here!
Edit: Hilarious interpretations ensued. I was talking about a hipothetical person who used condoms instead of havin two children separated by two years between their births. The cleaning the house thing is one of the beeping happiness experiments. Spending time with your children is sometimes really awesome, but on average, it is like cleaning the house.
I’m afraid that I’m entirely failing to grok what you mean with the “sex-tax” thing.
Also, I’ve heard enough stories about drawbacks to polyphasic sleep to conclude that it’s probably not a good fit for everyone. Some discussion on LW.
I think, at this point, the open question is if polyphasic sleep is a good fit for anyone.
I think he’s considering getting married or something, and having his wife do “boring” things “as cleaning the house” in exchange of sex—though if I’m right, IMO that’s an extremely bizarre way to put it.
No, he is saying by buying condoms you avoid the additional work children require. My understanding.
Yeah, that makes sense and explain the “counterfactual” part, which had eluded me.
hahah, the papers on happiness which beep people asking how happy they feel durigna activities average the same amount of happiness for time spent with one’s children and time spent cleaning the house.
Getting married actually increases happiness by an ammount I forgot. I was talking about children and beeps as you can see in a comment of mine below.
I am so confused by that second paragraph.
If the scale starts at 10, how to get to a 7? And where does the happiness come from? Does it come from having sex, or from not having a kid?
not having a kid will avoid the loss of 7 points per child, I was assuming people would father 2 infants, with a two year separation, just to be a little more criptic.