Converting between option preference and a utility number might be wanted even in scenarios where we have different kinds of preferences that we both care about but are distinct. Say that you can create or kill a human being and receive and receive or lose money. A morality that prefers 0 humans killed or created to a human killed regardless of money effect, but still uses money as a tie-breaker seems a relevant option.
If you formulate the number of such a option with a number system that is a single archimedian class (ie is finite) as A + B then there will be some natural number N that A + N B is greater than A + B ie that there will be some amount of money that is preferable to a human life if lifes or money is to be preferred at all. We could do this by treating “life-preferences” and “money-references” as separate utilities but as surreals they can be both be incorporated correctly into a single number (with finite and infinite factors).
In this sense “bros before hoes” implies a sense of infinity in the world.
Converting between option preference and a utility number might be wanted even in scenarios where we have different kinds of preferences that we both care about but are distinct. Say that you can create or kill a human being and receive and receive or lose money. A morality that prefers 0 humans killed or created to a human killed regardless of money effect, but still uses money as a tie-breaker seems a relevant option.
If you formulate the number of such a option with a number system that is a single archimedian class (ie is finite) as A + B then there will be some natural number N that A + N B is greater than A + B ie that there will be some amount of money that is preferable to a human life if lifes or money is to be preferred at all. We could do this by treating “life-preferences” and “money-references” as separate utilities but as surreals they can be both be incorporated correctly into a single number (with finite and infinite factors).
In this sense “bros before hoes” implies a sense of infinity in the world.