I’m not sure that h0 should be interpreted as “ordinary happiness”, at least that’s not how I described it. Regarding τ0, human preferences are the product of evolution plus maybe to some extent culture. So, it should not be surprising if some of the parameters come either from the ancestral environment in which evolution happened or from the “memetically ancestral” environment in which the culture evolved. And, I am talking about a model of (modern?) human preferences, not about some kind of objective morality (which doesn’t exist).
I’m not sure that h0 should be interpreted as “ordinary happiness”, at least that’s not how I described it. Regarding τ0, human preferences are the product of evolution plus maybe to some extent culture. So, it should not be surprising if some of the parameters come either from the ancestral environment in which evolution happened or from the “memetically ancestral” environment in which the culture evolved. And, I am talking about a model of (modern?) human preferences, not about some kind of objective morality (which doesn’t exist).