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Consider that preference formation is an engineering problem:
https://libertythroughreason.com/rationality-as-computation/

And if it is, consider also that maybe it’s worth staying away from concepts like HTV, which we have no idea how to program:
https://blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/hard-to-vary-or-hardly-usable
https://libertythroughreason.com/simple-refutation-of-david-deutschs-hard-to-vary/

The task is to write an algorithm that takes two ideas (eg in the form of strings of characters) and returns the preferable one.

How would one go about writing that?

I think it’d be fine to start with obviously wrong answers to that question and then incrementally correct errors. For example, an algorithm that favors the idea with fewer words. (A bit like Occam’s razor.) That’d be fine as long as one wrote working code.