I may have indeed made a mistake to frontload the math and thought experiments and put the introspection at the end, rather than centering the introspection and putting the rest in an appendix.
that’s not how utility works, utility is the unit of value, and so it doesn’t make sense in my ontology to say that they diminish in value.
I don’t think I’m anywhere near negative utilitarian enough to empathize with that last point. As I mention in my previous post, I’m quite positive utilitarian.
I don’t really have time to digest 2&3 right now, and I find myself confused without reading up on the things you cite.
Oops, I was sleepy when I wrote this and used sloppy wording. Meant to say “what makes the marginal unit of value (e.g. happy lives, days of happiness, etc.) provide less and less utility.”
I think the last point can also apply in the positive direction or at least does not require weighting negative value more heavily.
I may have indeed made a mistake to frontload the math and thought experiments and put the introspection at the end, rather than centering the introspection and putting the rest in an appendix.
that’s not how utility works, utility is the unit of value, and so it doesn’t make sense in my ontology to say that they diminish in value.
I don’t think I’m anywhere near negative utilitarian enough to empathize with that last point. As I mention in my previous post, I’m quite positive utilitarian.
I don’t really have time to digest 2&3 right now, and I find myself confused without reading up on the things you cite.
Oops, I was sleepy when I wrote this and used sloppy wording. Meant to say “what makes the marginal unit of value (e.g. happy lives, days of happiness, etc.) provide less and less utility.”
I think the last point can also apply in the positive direction or at least does not require weighting negative value more heavily.