You’ve misinterpreted what is meant by “complexity of value”. It does not mean that human utility is multidimensional. It means that the human utility function is very complex.
Specific example:
[freedom, happyness, love, beauty, fun] (that’s supposed to be a vector) is not a utility function and cannot be used for decision theory.
Something like (freedom + happyness + love + beauty + fun) or minimum-of(freedom, happyness, love, beauty, fun) is a (somewhat complex) utility function.
Having a complex utility function doesn’t make torture vs dust specks solve differently.
You’ve misinterpreted what is meant by “complexity of value”. It does not mean that human utility is multidimensional. It means that the human utility function is very complex.
Specific example:
[freedom, happyness, love, beauty, fun] (that’s supposed to be a vector) is not a utility function and cannot be used for decision theory.
Something like (freedom + happyness + love + beauty + fun) or minimum-of(freedom, happyness, love, beauty, fun) is a (somewhat complex) utility function.
Having a complex utility function doesn’t make torture vs dust specks solve differently.
Don’t use the word if the guy just got confused by the word :D
Value is (complex) complicated.