Yes, that is what I am saying. One can deduce from this that I don’t find it so peculiar.
To be clear, this doesn’t reflect at all what goes on in my personal decision-making process, since I’m human. However, I don’t find it any stranger than, say, having torture be arbitrarily 3^3^2 times worse than a dust speck, rather than 3^3^2 + 5.
Sarcasm time: I mean, seriously—are you honestly saying that at 3^3^2 + 1 dust specks, it’s worse than torture, but at 3^3^2 − 1, it’s better? That’s so… arbitrary. What’s so special about those two dust specks? That would be so… peculiar.
As soon as you allow the arbitrary size of a number to be “peculiar,” there is no longer any such thing as a non-peculiar set of preferences. That’s just how consistent preferences work. Discounting sets of preferences on account of “strangeness and arbitrariness” isn’t worth the effort, really.
Yes, that is what I am saying. One can deduce from this that I don’t find it so peculiar.
To be clear, this doesn’t reflect at all what goes on in my personal decision-making process, since I’m human. However, I don’t find it any stranger than, say, having torture be arbitrarily 3^3^2 times worse than a dust speck, rather than 3^3^2 + 5.
Sarcasm time: I mean, seriously—are you honestly saying that at 3^3^2 + 1 dust specks, it’s worse than torture, but at 3^3^2 − 1, it’s better? That’s so… arbitrary. What’s so special about those two dust specks? That would be so… peculiar.
As soon as you allow the arbitrary size of a number to be “peculiar,” there is no longer any such thing as a non-peculiar set of preferences. That’s just how consistent preferences work. Discounting sets of preferences on account of “strangeness and arbitrariness” isn’t worth the effort, really.
I don’t mean peculiar in any negative sense, just that it would not be suitable for goal optimization.
Is that really what you meant? Huh.
Could you elaborate?