This is very interesting; but perhaps we can rescue values by a transformation. As I’ve argued before, happiness is roughly the first derivative of utility. You are saying that our other values are, similarly, based on changes between two measurements rather than just a single measurement. Sounds much the same—and finding the right transformation may make values tractable.
One real problem is if there is sufficient circularity in the set of values and measurements to cause ambiguity. That is, if you have a set of equations describing the values resulting from a particular trajectory in measurements, we hope it has at most one solution.
This is very interesting; but perhaps we can rescue values by a transformation. As I’ve argued before, happiness is roughly the first derivative of utility. You are saying that our other values are, similarly, based on changes between two measurements rather than just a single measurement. Sounds much the same—and finding the right transformation may make values tractable.
One real problem is if there is sufficient circularity in the set of values and measurements to cause ambiguity. That is, if you have a set of equations describing the values resulting from a particular trajectory in measurements, we hope it has at most one solution.