Wow. I never said this. Not even “I kind of said this, and you took it out of context.” I just plain never claimed anything about the hedonic value of deliciousness
Except immediately above, in the passage we are both talking about, when you said:
Assume you are indifferent towards buying Chocolate Bar A at $1 per bar. How much would you pay for a chocolate bar that is 3.25186 times as delicious?
Either that was a statement implying that hedons are in invalid concept because it doesn’t make sense to talk about being “twice as delicious” without accounting for other factors; or else it had nothing to do with what followed.
Your point still makes the same mistake. You don’t have to presently know what twice as many hedons will feel like, or what twice as delicious will taste like. You know that some things are more pleasurable than others. The problem is defined so that Omega can be trusted to double your hedons, or utilons. So stop saying “I can’t imagine doubling my hedons” or anything like that. It doesn’t matter.
If you meant that you are cognitively incapable of experience twice the utility without losing your identity, that may be a valid objection. But AFAIK you’re not making that objection.
Except immediately above, in the passage we are both talking about, when you said:
Either that was a statement implying that hedons are in invalid concept because it doesn’t make sense to talk about being “twice as delicious” without accounting for other factors; or else it had nothing to do with what followed.
Your point still makes the same mistake. You don’t have to presently know what twice as many hedons will feel like, or what twice as delicious will taste like. You know that some things are more pleasurable than others. The problem is defined so that Omega can be trusted to double your hedons, or utilons. So stop saying “I can’t imagine doubling my hedons” or anything like that. It doesn’t matter.
If you meant that you are cognitively incapable of experience twice the utility without losing your identity, that may be a valid objection. But AFAIK you’re not making that objection.