How do you imagine standardizing the utility functions? E.g., if we multiply Uh by 2, then it does just as good a job representing our happiness, but gets twice as much weight.
Or we could come up with a normalisation method by having people rank the intensity of their preferences versus the intensity of their enjoyments. It doesn’t have to be particularly good, just give non-crazy results.
It doesn’t have to be particularly good, just give non-crazy results.
The intertheoretic utility post makes a lot more sense in that light; I had mostly dismissed it as a hack job when I first saw it. But if this is the sort of thing you’re trying to do, it seems more useful. Thanks for clarifying.
How do you imagine standardizing the utility functions? E.g., if we multiply Uh by 2, then it does just as good a job representing our happiness, but gets twice as much weight.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hBJCMWELaW6MxinYW/intertheoretic-utility-comparison
Or we could come up with a normalisation method by having people rank the intensity of their preferences versus the intensity of their enjoyments. It doesn’t have to be particularly good, just give non-crazy results.
The intertheoretic utility post makes a lot more sense in that light; I had mostly dismissed it as a hack job when I first saw it. But if this is the sort of thing you’re trying to do, it seems more useful. Thanks for clarifying.