ah crap (approving), you found a serious error in how I’ve been summarizing my thinking on this. Whoops, and thank you!
Hmm. I actually don’t know that I can update my english to a new integrated view that responds to this point without thinking about it for a few days, so I’m going to have to get back to you. I expect to argue to that 1. yep, your counterexample holds—some information causes more suffering-for-an-agent if that information is lost into entropy than other information 2. I still feel comfortable asserting that we are all subagents of the universe, and that stars cannot be reasonably claimed to not be suffering; suffering is, in my view, an amount-of-damage-induced-to-an-agent’s-intent, and stars are necessarily damage induced to agentic intent because they are waste.
again, I do feel comfortable asserting that suffering must be waste and waste must be suffering, but it seems I need to nail down the weighting math and justification a bit better if it is to be useful to others.
Indeed, my current hunch is that I’m looking for amount of satisfying energy burn vs amount of frustrating energy burn, and my assertion that stars are necessarily almost entirely frustrating energy burn still seems likely to be defensible after further thought.
ah crap (approving), you found a serious error in how I’ve been summarizing my thinking on this. Whoops, and thank you!
Hmm. I actually don’t know that I can update my english to a new integrated view that responds to this point without thinking about it for a few days, so I’m going to have to get back to you. I expect to argue to that 1. yep, your counterexample holds—some information causes more suffering-for-an-agent if that information is lost into entropy than other information 2. I still feel comfortable asserting that we are all subagents of the universe, and that stars cannot be reasonably claimed to not be suffering; suffering is, in my view, an amount-of-damage-induced-to-an-agent’s-intent, and stars are necessarily damage induced to agentic intent because they are waste.
again, I do feel comfortable asserting that suffering must be waste and waste must be suffering, but it seems I need to nail down the weighting math and justification a bit better if it is to be useful to others.
Indeed, my current hunch is that I’m looking for amount of satisfying energy burn vs amount of frustrating energy burn, and my assertion that stars are necessarily almost entirely frustrating energy burn still seems likely to be defensible after further thought.