I want to talk about efficiency, and we're going to, or at least I'm going to, at times also refer to this as orders of growth, for reasons that you'll see over the next few minutes.

为什么是很有价值的，我想要讨论下效率，我们将会，或者至少我将会不时的，提到有序的增长,原因你们很快就会明白的。

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Who's to say, a Benthamite might argue, who is to say which of these pleasures, whose pleasures are higher, worthier, nobler than others?

边沁主义者也许会问，谁能说这些快乐中，谁的更高级，更有价值或者更高贵呢？

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That generally is just modifying a few bytes, a few kilobytes worth of information.

这个操作通常只是修改了几个，或者几千字节的有价值的信息。

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There's a kind of aspect of value for many of us where we feel that something's especially valuable if it won't endure, if it's fragile, or if it's rare.

对我们许多人来说，有一种价值的方面在于,如果某事物不是持续的，如果是易碎的,或者是稀有的，我们就觉得它特别有价值。

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Or, for that matter, instrumentally bad.

或者有坏的利用价值。

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.. Because we also have to add in, if we accept a valuable container theory, we also have to add in some extra positive points to take account of the fact that, well, at least you're alive or have the life or a person-- or whatever it is that you think is valuable in and of itself.

因为我们还要添加，如果我们接受有价值容器理论的话，我们还要添加一些额外的正数,你要考虑，你至少活着或者拥有人的生命-,或任何你觉得它本身有价值的东西。

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