That doesn’t make it wrong, it makes it impotent. To break this “tie”, you’d end up preferring to create creatures that existing creatures would prefer exist, and then preferring to satisfy their preferences. Which makes sense to me.
I don’t understand your objection to my remark—I was analyzing the system Wei_Dai described, which evidently differs from yours.
That doesn’t make it wrong, it makes it impotent. To break this “tie”, you’d end up preferring to create creatures that existing creatures would prefer exist, and then preferring to satisfy their preferences. Which makes sense to me.
I don’t understand your objection to my remark—I was analyzing the system Wei_Dai described, which evidently differs from yours.