Is the naïve OLT so naïve that it always assign the same fixed amount of Value to the same bit of knowledge no matter what?
Anyway, I’m still not convinced that a person in constant pain should automatically be not well off. Who is better off, a world-famous scientist billionaire with a terrible illness causing constant pain, or a beggar without terrible illnesses living a miserable life in some third-world slum?
I’ve some trouble figuring out a similar scenario of well-off people involving literal torture, but that’s because, as I said earlier, the very concept of “torture” involves jailers deliberately inflicting harm to segregated people. You say that OTL fails just because you can’t imagine any realistic counterbalance to the torture itself. But since we are already in the realm of hypotheses, consider a fantasy setting where the demon-king routinely torture his generals, each of whom rules a whole realm anyway.
Is the naïve OLT so naïve that it always assign the same fixed amount of Value to the same bit of knowledge no matter what?
Anyway, I’m still not convinced that a person in constant pain should automatically be not well off. Who is better off, a world-famous scientist billionaire with a terrible illness causing constant pain, or a beggar without terrible illnesses living a miserable life in some third-world slum?
I’ve some trouble figuring out a similar scenario of well-off people involving literal torture, but that’s because, as I said earlier, the very concept of “torture” involves jailers deliberately inflicting harm to segregated people. You say that OTL fails just because you can’t imagine any realistic counterbalance to the torture itself. But since we are already in the realm of hypotheses, consider a fantasy setting where the demon-king routinely torture his generals, each of whom rules a whole realm anyway.