People mean different things when they say “values” (object vs meta values)
I noticed that people often mean different things when they say “values,” and they end up talking past each other (or convergence only happens after a long discussion). One of the difference is in whether they contain meta-level values.
Some people refer to the “object-level” preferences that we hold.
Often people bring up the “beauty” of the human mind’s capacity for its values to change, evolve, adopt, and grow—changing mind as it learns more about the world, being open to persuasion via rational argumentation, changing moral theories, etc.
Some people include the meta-values (that are defined on top of other values, and the evolution of such values).
e.g., My “values” include my meta-values, like wanting to be persuaded by good arguments, wanting to change my moral theories when I get to know better, even “not wanting my values to be fixed”
example of this view: carado’s post on you want what you want, and one of Vanessa Cosoy’s shortform/comment (can’t remember the link)
People mean different things when they say “values” (object vs meta values)
I noticed that people often mean different things when they say “values,” and they end up talking past each other (or convergence only happens after a long discussion). One of the difference is in whether they contain meta-level values.
Some people refer to the “object-level” preferences that we hold.
Often people bring up the “beauty” of the human mind’s capacity for its values to change, evolve, adopt, and grow—changing mind as it learns more about the world, being open to persuasion via rational argumentation, changing moral theories, etc.
Some people include the meta-values (that are defined on top of other values, and the evolution of such values).
e.g., My “values” include my meta-values, like wanting to be persuaded by good arguments, wanting to change my moral theories when I get to know better, even “not wanting my values to be fixed”
example of this view: carado’s post on you want what you want, and one of Vanessa Cosoy’s shortform/comment (can’t remember the link)