Simply false AFAIK. There is a mathematical way to express as a single-number metric every tiered system I've ever been capable of conceiving
I don't understand. Do you mean that as in "you can describe/encode arbitrary systems as a single number" or something related to that?
If not, do you mean that there must be some number of sparrows outweighing everything else as it gets sufficiently large?
Please explain.
Do you mean that as in "you can describe/encode arbitrary systems as a single number" or something related to that?
Yes.
For my part, I also consider it perfectly plausible (though perhaps less likely than some alternatives) that some humans might actually have tiered systems where certain values really truly never can be traded off in the slightest fraction of opportunity costs against arbitrarily high values of all lower-tiered values at the same time.
For instance, I could imagine an agent that values everything I value but has a hard tier cut...
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