After spending a week getting a dust speck in the eye every single second, I think you’ll do the math and opt to be choosing the 1-in-3^^^^^3 chance of torture instead.
That is an entirely different scenario than what Prismattic is describing. In fact, a dust speck in the eye every single second would be an extremely effective form of torture.
Indeed. More abstractly: pleasure and suffering aren’t so nice as to neatly add and multiply like pretty little scalars.
Even if you wish to talk about “utils/utilons”—it is by no means obvious that ten dust specks are worth exactly ten times as many (negative) utils as one dust speck.
That is an entirely different scenario than what Prismattic is describing. In fact, a dust speck in the eye every single second would be an extremely effective form of torture.
Indeed. More abstractly: pleasure and suffering aren’t so nice as to neatly add and multiply like pretty little scalars.
Even if you wish to talk about “utils/utilons”—it is by no means obvious that ten dust specks are worth exactly ten times as many (negative) utils as one dust speck.