Your instrumental values changed dramatically and very visibly, so you confused them for your terminal values.
Your terminal values changed, and you didn’t gain any insight to what they were before.
Your terminal values didn’t change, but are weighed differently now.
Your terminal values didn’t change, you’re still optimizing for the same things you did before, and are just using different kind of language.
As an exercise, what kinds of smaller parts can the terminal values you mentioned be chopped into?
Anyways, I’m pretty reluctant to use “instrumental” and “terminal” for humans anymore. People’s values seem so volatile and thickly veiled that it’s not a useful distinction.
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Your instrumental values changed dramatically and very visibly, so you confused them for your terminal values. Your terminal values changed, and you didn’t gain any insight to what they were before. Your terminal values didn’t change, but are weighed differently now. Your terminal values didn’t change, you’re still optimizing for the same things you did before, and are just using different kind of language.
As an exercise, what kinds of smaller parts can the terminal values you mentioned be chopped into?
Anyways, I’m pretty reluctant to use “instrumental” and “terminal” for humans anymore. People’s values seem so volatile and thickly veiled that it’s not a useful distinction.