I agree Carl—I’d say advocating for or denying the (overwhelming) importance of hedonism are both arguable positions but expecting it to be of a similar level of importance to other lives is wrongest of all.
The point is stronger: if you posit the most efficient arrangement of matter for producing welfare is less efficient than a bunch of animal brains that you could be using as your arrangement, then you get a contradiction.
I also really think that you need to address the super-strong empirical claims implicit in your prior (held fixed, with no updating on evidence that it’s wrong, and with no mixture of other models) at the tails. I’ve added to threads under your previous post on priors, with links to other discussions.
I agree Carl—I’d say advocating for or denying the (overwhelming) importance of hedonism are both arguable positions but expecting it to be of a similar level of importance to other lives is wrongest of all.
The point is stronger: if you posit the most efficient arrangement of matter for producing welfare is less efficient than a bunch of animal brains that you could be using as your arrangement, then you get a contradiction.
Yeah that was pretty clearly a mistake.
I also really think that you need to address the super-strong empirical claims implicit in your prior (held fixed, with no updating on evidence that it’s wrong, and with no mixture of other models) at the tails. I’ve added to threads under your previous post on priors, with links to other discussions.