The post is mostly arguing that desires can shift around as we learn and think, which I agree with. But a couple parts of the post (including the title and some of the subheadings) seems to suggest something more than that: it’s not just desire-shifts, but desire convergence, towards a thing called “our values”.
(In other words, if I say that “I’m learning about blah”, then I’m strongly implying that there’s a fact-of-the-matter about blah, and that my beliefs about blah are approximately-monotonically converging towards that fact-of-the-matter. Right?)
Do you think there’s a thing (“human values”) to which desires gradually converge, via the kinds of processes described in this post? (I don’t, see §2.7 here.)
The post is mostly arguing that desires can shift around as we learn and think, which I agree with. But a couple parts of the post (including the title and some of the subheadings) seems to suggest something more than that: it’s not just desire-shifts, but desire convergence, towards a thing called “our values”.
(In other words, if I say that “I’m learning about blah”, then I’m strongly implying that there’s a fact-of-the-matter about blah, and that my beliefs about blah are approximately-monotonically converging towards that fact-of-the-matter. Right?)
Do you think there’s a thing (“human values”) to which desires gradually converge, via the kinds of processes described in this post? (I don’t, see §2.7 here.)