Conversely, when we start becoming able to fine-tune our own values, people will start to stabilise their own values, preventing value drift.
When I read this I assume you have in mind a point in the future when we’re uploads, or have broad control over biology. Which makes me surprised to then read this part:
So we may end up with perpetual pre-adolescents, babies created with adult values, or a completely different maturation process, which didn’t involve value changes.
Are you imagine a future where we both can engineer our bodies / minds, and also still go through (or at least start to go through) the normal human physical maturation process from baby to adult (complete with all the hormonal changes and growth spurts, etc.)?
This seems sort of incongruous (anachronistic?) to me.
When I read this I assume you have in mind a point in the future when we’re uploads, or have broad control over biology. Which makes me surprised to then read this part:
Are you imagine a future where we both can engineer our bodies / minds, and also still go through (or at least start to go through) the normal human physical maturation process from baby to adult (complete with all the hormonal changes and growth spurts, etc.)?
This seems sort of incongruous (anachronistic?) to me.
That seems still plausible to me under the biology scenario (at least early on), not so much for uploads.
But stability of value is one of the reasons I expect we’ll design a different maturation process, sooner than we otherwise would.