It gives you pure boredom - of the type that you get when efficiently searching a space. That is why evolution makes humans that get bored in the first place.
Human boredom is an approximation of that - since humans have limited resources, and are imperfect. To the extent that humans are approximations of instrumentally-rational agents, then of course, human boredom resembles the pure boredom that you would get from efficiently searching a space.
This is not "universalizing anthropomorphic values" - as you claim - but rather the universal fact that agents don't explore a search space very effectively if they stay for too long in the same place.
It makes for good Less Wrong introductory material to point people to, since there are lots of people who won't read long article online but will listen to a podcast on the way to work: LINK.
Apologies for the self-promotion, but it could hardly be more relevant to Less Wrong...