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Trying for a sympathetic interpretation - I /think/ you must be talking about the preferences of a particular individual, or an average human - or something like that.
In general, preference-satisfaction is not specific - in the way that maximising complexity is (for some defined metric of complexity) - because the preferences could be any agent's preferences - and different agents can have wildly different preferences.
Preference-satisfaction in this context is usually considered as an aggregate (usually a sum or an average) of the degree to which all individuals' preferences are satisfied (for some defined metric of satisfaction).
The preferences of the people in the situation being evaluated.