Leaving aside the question of why you believe that your preferences don’t reduce to hedonism (when considering the possibility of preference to identify as someone who’s preferences don’t reduce to hedonism)...
One partial solution is to recognize that I am not atomic. Parts of my mind have goals and knowledge that differ from other parts—it’s not a crisp separation, but it’s not a uniform belief-mass.
Which opens the path to an analogy to standard ML practice: separating your inputs into training and test sets (which are independent) builds way stronger models than putting all of it into training, even though it’s less data input to the actual model. I think this does give some insight into the preference to initial ignorance for games and entertainment/practice mysteries. I don’t think it resolves all aspects of the question, of course.
Leaving aside the question of why you believe that your preferences don’t reduce to hedonism (when considering the possibility of preference to identify as someone who’s preferences don’t reduce to hedonism)...
One partial solution is to recognize that I am not atomic. Parts of my mind have goals and knowledge that differ from other parts—it’s not a crisp separation, but it’s not a uniform belief-mass.
Which opens the path to an analogy to standard ML practice: separating your inputs into training and test sets (which are independent) builds way stronger models than putting all of it into training, even though it’s less data input to the actual model. I think this does give some insight into the preference to initial ignorance for games and entertainment/practice mysteries. I don’t think it resolves all aspects of the question, of course.