Or you can choose “Youtube”, and 3^^^3 people who weren’t doing much with some one-second period of their lives instead get to spend that second watching a brief, grainy, yet droll recording of a cat jumping into a box, which they find mildly entertaining.
This feels like negative utility compared to the normal course of existence. I think that many people (extrapolating from myself, with a qualitative discount) would rather be doing other things with that one-second interval of their lives than watching such a YouTube video, so that course of action actually has a cost if whatever else they would have been doing right then would have been more fun.
I also notice that if I’m feeling somewhat euphoric at the time, such a video might cause my mood to drop significantly, thus creating a rather large negative deltafun compared to, say, just thinking.
Whether the Youtube video is going to be plus or minus fun is going to depend on the context, so, uh, the answer is going to depend on psychology and lots of general information about how different people live. However, I would pick Sublimity because of the potential for non-negligable deltafuns occurring—for the same reason, I would pick ~Sublimity (as in, take no action) over Youtube.
This feels like negative utility compared to the normal course of existence. I think that many people (extrapolating from myself, with a qualitative discount) would rather be doing other things with that one-second interval of their lives than watching such a YouTube video, so that course of action actually has a cost if whatever else they would have been doing right then would have been more fun.
I also notice that if I’m feeling somewhat euphoric at the time, such a video might cause my mood to drop significantly, thus creating a rather large negative deltafun compared to, say, just thinking.
Whether the Youtube video is going to be plus or minus fun is going to depend on the context, so, uh, the answer is going to depend on psychology and lots of general information about how different people live. However, I would pick Sublimity because of the potential for non-negligable deltafuns occurring—for the same reason, I would pick ~Sublimity (as in, take no action) over Youtube.