Because I was not sure what was the concrete implication of the asteroid impact, the reveal was unimpactful on me (pun inteded) that it was objectively valued negatively by anybody because they risk death. Had you written that the asteroid strikes near the agent, or that this causes massive catastrophes, then I would probably have though that it mattered the same for local peeblehoarders and for humans. Also, the asteroid might destroy pebbles (or depending on your definition of pebble, make new ones).
Also, I feel that some of your examples of objective impact are indeed relevant to agents in general (not dying/being destroyed), while other depends on sharing a common context (cash, which would be utterly useless in Pebblia if the local economy was based on exchanging peebles for peebles).
Do you just always consider this context as implicit?
Also, I feel that some of your examples of objective impact are indeed relevant to agents in general (not dying/being destroyed), while other depends on sharing a common context (cash, which would be utterly useless in Pebblia if the local economy was based on exchanging peebles for peebles).
Yeah, in the post I wrote
Even if we were on Pebblia, we’d probably think primarily of the impact on human-Pebblehoarder relations.
I don’t see the link with my objection, since you quote a part of your post when you write of value impact (which is dependent on the values of the specific agents) and I talk about the need for context even for objective impact (which you present as independent of values and objectives of specific agents)
Oh, I think I see. Yes, this is explicitly talked about later in the sequence—“resources” like cash are given their importance by how they affect future possibilities, and that’s highly context-dependent.
(Let me know if this still isn’t addressing your objection)
I have one potential criticism of the examples:
Because I was not sure what was the concrete implication of the asteroid impact, the reveal was unimpactful on me (pun inteded) that it was objectively valued negatively by anybody because they risk death. Had you written that the asteroid strikes near the agent, or that this causes massive catastrophes, then I would probably have though that it mattered the same for local peeblehoarders and for humans. Also, the asteroid might destroy pebbles (or depending on your definition of pebble, make new ones).
Also, I feel that some of your examples of objective impact are indeed relevant to agents in general (not dying/being destroyed), while other depends on sharing a common context (cash, which would be utterly useless in Pebblia if the local economy was based on exchanging peebles for peebles).
Do you just always consider this context as implicit?
Yeah, in the post I wrote
I don’t see the link with my objection, since you quote a part of your post when you write of value impact (which is dependent on the values of the specific agents) and I talk about the need for context even for objective impact (which you present as independent of values and objectives of specific agents)
Oh, I think I see. Yes, this is explicitly talked about later in the sequence—“resources” like cash are given their importance by how they affect future possibilities, and that’s highly context-dependent.
(Let me know if this still isn’t addressing your objection)
Thanks, I’ll keep going then.