Informal argument: no. People’s perceptions are noisy. On the short term they fluctuate far more than is strictly rational. I believe that most people’s views of existence on average are (weakly) positive. With the button, if/when there’s a momentary fluctuation...? A positive mean does not imply all data points are positive.
This is the same conclusion and argument I arrived after reading tivelen’s comment. But my objection would be that a “momentary fluctuation” generally is not a good moral argument. You could doubt every decision because the time you took to not be considered a fluctuation is arbitrary.
Informal argument: no. People’s perceptions are noisy. On the short term they fluctuate far more than is strictly rational. I believe that most people’s views of existence on average are (weakly) positive. With the button, if/when there’s a momentary fluctuation...? A positive mean does not imply all data points are positive.
This is the same conclusion and argument I arrived after reading tivelen’s comment. But my objection would be that a “momentary fluctuation” generally is not a good moral argument. You could doubt every decision because the time you took to not be considered a fluctuation is arbitrary.