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Gupie
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Can't there be a concept of negative happiness?
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Definitely! ‘Imaginary’ happiness as well to allow for periodicity. But before all of that the linearity assumption [H(a+b)=H(a)+H(b)] needs to be restricted to particular local domains, and explicitly disclaimed in general.
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