Thank you for the answer. I notice I feel somewhat confused, and that I regard the notion of “real values” with some suspicion I can’t quite put my finger on. Regardless, an attempted definition follows.
Let a subject observation set be a complete specification of a subject and it’s past and current environment, from the subject’s own subjectively accessible perspective. The elements of a subject observation set are observations/experiences observed/experienced by its subject.
Let O be the set of all subject observation sets.
Let a subject observation set class be a subset of O such that all it’s elements specify subjects that belong to an intuitive “kind of subject”: e.g. humans, cats, parasitoid wasps.
Let V be the set of all (subject_observation_set, subject_reward_value) tuples. Note that all possible utility functions of all possible subjects can be defined as subsets of V, and that V = O x ℝ.
Let “real human values” be the subset of V such that all subject_observation_set elements belong to the human subject observation set class.[1]
… this above definition feels pretty underwhelming, and I suspect that I would endorse a pretty small subset of “real human values” as defined above as actually good.
Thank you for the answer. I notice I feel somewhat confused, and that I regard the notion of “real values” with some suspicion I can’t quite put my finger on. Regardless, an attempted definition follows.
Let a subject observation set be a complete specification of a subject and it’s past and current environment, from the subject’s own subjectively accessible perspective. The elements of a subject observation set are observations/experiences observed/experienced by its subject.
Let O be the set of all subject observation sets.
Let a subject observation set class be a subset of O such that all it’s elements specify subjects that belong to an intuitive “kind of subject”: e.g. humans, cats, parasitoid wasps.
Let V be the set of all (subject_observation_set, subject_reward_value) tuples. Note that all possible utility functions of all possible subjects can be defined as subsets of V, and that
V = O x ℝ.
Let “real human values” be the subset of V such that all subject_observation_set elements belong to the human subject observation set class.[1]
… this above definition feels pretty underwhelming, and I suspect that I would endorse a pretty small subset of “real human values” as defined above as actually good.
Let the reader feel free take the political decision of restricting the subject observation set class that defines “real human values” to sane humans.