“No intrinsic value in the number of copies”—perhaps I misread that, then? I admit I didn’t think through the implications of the axioms along with you, since I felt like the first was questionable.
It means that I don’t derive extra utility from having specifically one, three or 77 copies. So I don’t say “hey, I have three copies, adding one more would be a tragedy! I don’t want to have four copies—four is an unlucky number.”
It doesn’t mean that I don’t derive extra utility from having many copies and all of them being happy.
Maybe you mean “(my) utility as a function of how many copies (of ‘me’) there are (all in happy-enough situations) is [strictly] monotone”. Otherwise I don’t follow. This “special numbers with intrinsic value” concept is cumbersome.
I don’t like it either, and it may not be needed. (and I don’t need the “strictly monotone”; that’s a conclusion of the the axioms). I’ll have to recast it all formally to check whether its needed.
“No intrinsic value in the number of copies”—perhaps I misread that, then? I admit I didn’t think through the implications of the axioms along with you, since I felt like the first was questionable.
It means that I don’t derive extra utility from having specifically one, three or 77 copies. So I don’t say “hey, I have three copies, adding one more would be a tragedy! I don’t want to have four copies—four is an unlucky number.”
It doesn’t mean that I don’t derive extra utility from having many copies and all of them being happy.
Maybe you mean “(my) utility as a function of how many copies (of ‘me’) there are (all in happy-enough situations) is [strictly] monotone”. Otherwise I don’t follow. This “special numbers with intrinsic value” concept is cumbersome.
I don’t like it either, and it may not be needed. (and I don’t need the “strictly monotone”; that’s a conclusion of the the axioms). I’ll have to recast it all formally to check whether its needed.