it is true that past society has failed to align current society; we’re glad because we like our values, they’d be upset because they prefer theirs. we are ourselves now and so we want to align the future to our own values.
there’s also the matter that people in the past might agree with our values more under reflection, the same way we’d probly not want the meat industry under reflection.
we should want many of our non-terminal values to change over time, of course! we just want to make sure our terminal values are in charge of how that actually happens. there is a sufficiently high meta level at which we do want our values forever, rather than some other way-our-instrumental-values-could-change which we wouldn’t like as much.
it is true that past society has failed to align current society; we’re glad because we like our values, they’d be upset because they prefer theirs. we are ourselves now and so we want to align the future to our own values.
there’s also the matter that people in the past might agree with our values more under reflection, the same way we’d probly not want the meat industry under reflection.
we should want many of our non-terminal values to change over time, of course! we just want to make sure our terminal values are in charge of how that actually happens. there is a sufficiently high meta level at which we do want our values forever, rather than some other way-our-instrumental-values-could-change which we wouldn’t like as much.