For what it’s worth, I do specifically have power-law shaped intuitions about the value of pleasure as you arrange matter to optimize for it more and more. But I agree with you both, I didn’t argue for this and it’s not important to my core point.
Very much of a tangent, but do you have an short explanation for why the shape is likely to be a power-law? I think power laws are relatively rare in nature, and the more common generators of power law distributions (e.g. network effects) don’t seem to apply here.
For what it’s worth, I do specifically have power-law shaped intuitions about the value of pleasure as you arrange matter to optimize for it more and more. But I agree with you both, I didn’t argue for this and it’s not important to my core point.
Apologies for doubting you!
Very much of a tangent, but do you have an short explanation for why the shape is likely to be a power-law? I think power laws are relatively rare in nature, and the more common generators of power law distributions (e.g. network effects) don’t seem to apply here.