I expect most people on LW to be okay being asked their Cheerful Price to have sex with someone. But e.g. even contemplating “Cheerful Price to kill my dog” throws an error and causes large psychic damage.
(Otoh, I fell asleep pondering my Cheerful Price for various random things, and I think it’s about $100k for my dog to stay with my ex instead of me)
I expect most people on LW to be okay being asked their Cheerful Price to have sex with someone.
I find this a surprising assertion. It does not apply to me, probably it does apply to you. Ordinarily I would ask if you had any other data points, but I don’t want to take the conversation in this direction...
I pondered the dog thing for a second before realizing that I wouldn’t be cheerful even at trillions of dollars, because I would still be sad about my dog being tortured. This may be a way that “cheerful price” is much less psychologically damaging than “willingness to pay” (indeed Eliezer points towards this in the article).
I suspect the same is true of many people being paid to have sex with others.
(Also, I think there’s supposed to be a norm about using torture in thought experiments, so there’s that).
I expect most people on LW to be okay being asked their Cheerful Price to have sex with someone. But e.g. even contemplating “Cheerful Price to kill my dog” throws an error and causes large psychic damage.
(Otoh, I fell asleep pondering my Cheerful Price for various random things, and I think it’s about $100k for my dog to stay with my ex instead of me)
(Edited: replaced torture thought experiment)
I find this a surprising assertion. It does not apply to me, probably it does apply to you. Ordinarily I would ask if you had any other data points, but I don’t want to take the conversation in this direction...
I pondered the dog thing for a second before realizing that I wouldn’t be cheerful even at trillions of dollars, because I would still be sad about my dog being tortured. This may be a way that “cheerful price” is much less psychologically damaging than “willingness to pay” (indeed Eliezer points towards this in the article).
I suspect the same is true of many people being paid to have sex with others.
(Also, I think there’s supposed to be a norm about using torture in thought experiments, so there’s that).