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 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).