I’ve suggested something similar for happiness (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7Kv5cik4JWoayHYPD/nonlinear-perception-of-happiness ). If you don’t want to introduce the weird asymmetry where negative counts and positive not, what you get out of that could be somewhat surprising—it possibly recovers more “common folk” altruism where helping people who are already quite well off could be good, and if you allow more speculative views on the space on mind-states, you are at risk of recovering something closely resembling some sort of “buddhist utilitarian calculus”.
I’ve suggested something similar for happiness (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7Kv5cik4JWoayHYPD/nonlinear-perception-of-happiness ). If you don’t want to introduce the weird asymmetry where negative counts and positive not, what you get out of that could be somewhat surprising—it possibly recovers more “common folk” altruism where helping people who are already quite well off could be good, and if you allow more speculative views on the space on mind-states, you are at risk of recovering something closely resembling some sort of “buddhist utilitarian calculus”.