I’ve though about this some more and I think what you mean (leaving aside physical and homeostatic values and focusing on organism-wide values) is that, even if we define our “terminal value” as I have above, whence the basket of goods that mean “happiness/flourishing” to me?
Again I think the answer is evolution plus something...some value drift (that as you say, the Shard Theory people are trying to figure out). Is there a place/post you’d recommend to get up to speed on that? The wikitag is a little light on details (although I added a sequence that was a good starting place). https://www.lesswrong.com/w/shard-theory
I’d suggest TurnTrout’s writing (Alex Turner at DeepMind), since he’s the person who first came up with the idea. Most of his posts are on LessWrong/The Aligment Forum, but they’re best organized on his own website. I’d suggest starting at https://turntrout.com/research, reading the section on Shard Theory, and following links.
He himself admits that some of his key posts often seem to get misunderstood: I think they repay careful reading and some thought.
I’ve though about this some more and I think what you mean (leaving aside physical and homeostatic values and focusing on organism-wide values) is that, even if we define our “terminal value” as I have above, whence the basket of goods that mean “happiness/flourishing” to me?
Again I think the answer is evolution plus something...some value drift (that as you say, the Shard Theory people are trying to figure out). Is there a place/post you’d recommend to get up to speed on that? The wikitag is a little light on details (although I added a sequence that was a good starting place). https://www.lesswrong.com/w/shard-theory
I’d suggest TurnTrout’s writing (Alex Turner at DeepMind), since he’s the person who first came up with the idea. Most of his posts are on LessWrong/The Aligment Forum, but they’re best organized on his own website. I’d suggest starting at https://turntrout.com/research, reading the section on Shard Theory, and following links.
He himself admits that some of his key posts often seem to get misunderstood: I think they repay careful reading and some thought.