I think it’s a lot easier to describe what happiness isn’t than what it is – it’s much less difficult (although still not trivial) to instead identify what suff

I think it’s a lot easier to describe what happiness isn’t than what it is – it’s much less difficult (although still not trivial) to instead identify what suffering is. In that sense a good goal would be to minimize the amount of suffering in the world. But do you minimize the maximum suffering experienced by any single individual, or do you minimize the mean suffering, or something else? The particular form of the cost function is a bit difficult to reify.