Thanks for writing this! You might find this article interesting: The heavy-tailed valence hypothesis: the human capacity for vast variation in pleasure/pain and how to test it (largely based on this EA Forum post: Logarithmic Scales of Pleasure and Pain: Rating, Ranking, and Comparing Peak Experiences Suggest the Existence of Long Tails for Bliss and Suffering).
Hi Alfredo, thanks for reading and suggesting those articles! I’ve skimmed the logarithmic scales article and for sure find that terrifying and depressing. All the more reason to lighten that heavy tail!
Thanks for writing this! You might find this article interesting: The heavy-tailed valence hypothesis: the human capacity for vast variation in pleasure/pain and how to test it (largely based on this EA Forum post: Logarithmic Scales of Pleasure and Pain: Rating, Ranking, and Comparing Peak Experiences Suggest the Existence of Long Tails for Bliss and Suffering).
Hi Alfredo, thanks for reading and suggesting those articles! I’ve skimmed the logarithmic scales article and for sure find that terrifying and depressing. All the more reason to lighten that heavy tail!