I would like to know what value of utility you would give to certain kinds of pleasure in order to see how much the perceived ratios are differing between people. Of course, you can object that the real amount of pleasure someone experiences may be different from the pleasure she will recall; furthermore, pleasure is not a scalar, and it is a question of definition of someones’ utility function how much she would want to have different kinds of pleasure; furthermore, there are effects of diminishing returns. However, you probably can get some orders of magnitude out of this.
Let’s define your favorite meal, one time, when you are hungry but not “starving to death” as one hundred utilium (You see this is pretty heuristical).
So how much utility is it?
I would like to know what value of utility you would give to certain kinds of pleasure in order to see how much the perceived ratios are differing between people. Of course, you can object that the real amount of pleasure someone experiences may be different from the pleasure she will recall; furthermore, pleasure is not a scalar, and it is a question of definition of someones’ utility function how much she would want to have different kinds of pleasure; furthermore, there are effects of diminishing returns. However, you probably can get some orders of magnitude out of this.
Let’s define your favorite meal, one time, when you are hungry but not “starving to death” as one hundred utilium (You see this is pretty heuristical).
You can include painful experiences, too.