Thanks! Glad this works well as a summary.
I haven’t looked into the age-happiness curve all that much, but from the studies I have read, I think it’s a bit suspicious that none of them seem to control for ERS. If ERS really is U-shaped (seems like a slight majority opinion), then a lot or even all of the age-happiness curve could be explained by that. Then again, surely someone in the field would have found that out by now if it were true, right? Might look into it further in a future post
Thanks for the link! I hadn’t seen it before, definitely useful information.
No, I hadn’t heard of qualia formalism yet, though it sounds kind of like the way I implicitly conceptualize qualia. Principia Qualia seems really intriguing and I’ll definitely be reading it!