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Executive Summary The best-supported answer is qualified yes: tragic experience can stimulate renewed purpose, growth, creativity, or forms of flourishing, but not because suffering is intrinsically good, and not for everyone. Across …
Executive summary “Spartan frugal hedonism” is best understood as a modern synthesis, not a classical school. In contemporary usage, “frugal hedonism” means spending less while learning to enjoy life more through attention, …
Executive summary The strongest conclusion from contemporary neuroscience and psychology is not that pain and pleasure are simple opposites, and also not that “more pain, more pleasure” is generally true. The more …
Executive Summary The strongest conclusion from current evidence is that lower wealth does not generally reduce fear in the broad psychological sense. On average, lower income or lower socioeconomic status is more …
Executive summary Interpreted ethically, “conquering AI” should not mean dominating a sentient adversary or attempting a malicious takeover. It should mean building durable human control over advanced AI systems and the organizations …
Executive summary This report treats “the will to ambition” as an analytic construct rather than a settled term of art. In the literature reviewed here, motivation is a broad process that energizes …