Are you familiar with Scott Alexander's recent piece on the relationship between the predictability of a reward on how happy it makes you? He's a psychologist, and I found the idea that happiness levels are related to how pleasantly surprised you get to be pretty compelling: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/unpredictable-reward-predictable
Are you familiar with Scott Alexander's recent piece on the relationship between the predictability of a reward on how happy it makes you? He's a psychologist, and I found the idea that happiness levels are related to how pleasantly surprised you get to be pretty compelling: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/unpredictable-reward-predictable