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Those aren't really quality of life metrics though. They are things you think might lead to quality of life, but the isn't the same thing. Walkability might not
by jnordwick 10y ago
Those aren't really quality of life metrics though. They are things you think might lead to quality of life, but the isn't the same thing. Walkability might not be the important thing, but ease of commute might be and separate cars might win out on that (convince a majority of LA natives to give up theirs cars in exchange for the subway and see how far you get).
Your most likely scenario is going to be a simulation that optimizes the preferences of the person seeing it up.
This is a problem and we haven't even come to the part about knowing how goals and actions interact with each other.
This would literally win you a Nobel prize and change the world.
- cmarschner 10y agoYou put it like finding out people's needs is complete voodoo... but in fact there are well established disciplines in the social sciences that do nothing but that, and quality of life can be put into indices and even ranked. And, yes, at this point European cities with good public transport, like Copenhagen, Zürich, Vienna or Munich come out on top in many cases in these surveys.