I don’t think that manufactured is a useful word here. If I were to try to use it, I would say that any LessWrong value that you gained from LessWrong was “manufactured in you”. I would also say that any value commonly expressed on LessWrong has been shaped beyond the form in which it was originally conceived, and ‘manufactured’ in this sense.
There is no real sense that you can can any value you hold is not manufactured, unless you are talking about values like eating and breathing.
P.S. As far an a universal human culture goes, we can say with some certainty that religion, for example, is part of human nature—but no specific god, church, or belief is. So any religious/spiritual views you hold are clearly manufactured; the extent to which you hold them or do not was ‘shaped’ (which you may call manufactured or not).
I don’t think that manufactured is a useful word here. If I were to try to use it, I would say that any LessWrong value that you gained from LessWrong was “manufactured in you”. I would also say that any value commonly expressed on LessWrong has been shaped beyond the form in which it was originally conceived, and ‘manufactured’ in this sense.
There is no real sense that you can can any value you hold is not manufactured, unless you are talking about values like eating and breathing.
P.S. As far an a universal human culture goes, we can say with some certainty that religion, for example, is part of human nature—but no specific god, church, or belief is. So any religious/spiritual views you hold are clearly manufactured; the extent to which you hold them or do not was ‘shaped’ (which you may call manufactured or not).