When you say that pain is “fundamentally different” than discomfort, do you mean to imply that it’s a strictly more important consideration? If so, your theory is similar to Asimov’s One Law of Robotics, and you should stop wasting your time thinking about “discomfort”, since it’s infinitely less important than pain.
When you say that pain is “fundamentally different” than discomfort, do you mean to imply that it’s a strictly more important consideration? If so, your theory is similar to Asimov’s One Law of Robotics, and you should stop wasting your time thinking about “discomfort”, since it’s infinitely less important than pain.
Stratified utility functions don’t work.