If there is such a thing as ‘meta-preference ambivalence’ we could gauge that too: “People who do not have any meta-preferences in their utility-function get a score of 0, people for whom the entire purpose in life is the promotion of average utilitarianism will get a score of 1 etc.
Just multiply the ambivalence with the meta-preference and then add all the scores of the individual methods together (add all the scores of the preferences for “median utility” together, add all the scores for “total utility” together etc) and compare.
This seems unnecessary. Ambivalent means the weight given to the different options is a 1:1 ratio.
Let’s say we were able to gauge everyone’s (underlying) preferences about how much they like certain methods of maximizing by holding a so called utilitarian vote.
I mentioned the utilitarian voting method, also known as score voting. This is the most accurate way to gauge peoples preferences (especially if the amount of nuance is unbounded e.g 0,827938222...) if you don’t have to deal with people voting strategically (which would be the case if we were just checking people’s utility function)
EDIT: Or maybe not? I’m not an expert on social choice theory, but I’m not entirely confident that Bayesian regret is the best metric anymore. So if a social choice theorist thinks I made a mistake, please let me know.
This seems unnecessary. Ambivalent means the weight given to the different options is a 1:1 ratio.
What should the voting method to start with be?
EDIT: This other comment from the OP suggests that ratios aren’t taken into account, and ambivalence is accounted by asking that as a question; https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2NTSQ5EZ8ambPLxjy/meta-preference-utilitarianism#j4MMqj4aFdzjmJF5A
I mentioned the utilitarian voting method, also known as score voting. This is the most accurate way to gauge peoples preferences (especially if the amount of nuance is unbounded e.g 0,827938222...) if you don’t have to deal with people voting strategically (which would be the case if we were just checking people’s utility function)
EDIT: Or maybe not? I’m not an expert on social choice theory, but I’m not entirely confident that Bayesian regret is the best metric anymore. So if a social choice theorist thinks I made a mistake, please let me know.