If you find yourself terminally valuing something that is not someone’s experienced valence, then either one of these propositions is likely true: A nonsentient process has at some point had write access to your values.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding your point, but this seems straightforwardly true for most people? Evolution, which wrote ~all our values, isn’t sentient, and most people do terminally value some things other than experienced valence (e.g. various forms of art, carrying out the traditions of their culture, doing things correctly according to some-or-other prescriptive system, etc); these may well be reified heuristics, but they’re not experienced as instrumental.
You are not misunderstanding my point. Some people may want to keep artificial stimulus-valence mappings (i.e. values) that someone or something else inserted into them. I do not.
Reflecting on this after some time, I do not endorse this comment in the case of (most) innate evolution-originated drives. I sure as heck do not want to stop enjoying sex, for instance.
However, I very much want to eliminate any terminal [nonsentient-thing-benefitting]-valence mapping any people or institutions may have inserted into my mind.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding your point, but this seems straightforwardly true for most people? Evolution, which wrote ~all our values, isn’t sentient, and most people do terminally value some things other than experienced valence (e.g. various forms of art, carrying out the traditions of their culture, doing things correctly according to some-or-other prescriptive system, etc); these may well be reified heuristics, but they’re not experienced as instrumental.
You are not misunderstanding my point. Some people may want to keep artificial stimulus-valence mappings (i.e. values) that someone or something else inserted into them. I do not.
Reflecting on this after some time, I do not endorse this comment in the case of (most) innate evolution-originated drives. I sure as heck do not want to stop enjoying sex, for instance.
However, I very much want to eliminate any terminal [nonsentient-thing-benefitting]-valence mapping any people or institutions may have inserted into my mind.