Yes exactly. The larva example illustrates that there are different kinds of values. I thought it was underexplored in the OP to characterize exactly what these different kinds of values are.
In the sadist example we have:
the hardcoded pleasure of hurting people.
And we have, let’s assume, the wish to make other people happy.
These two things both seem like values. However, they seem to be qualitatively different kinds of values. I intuit that more precisely characterizing this difference is important. I have a bunch of thoughts on this that I failed to write up so far.
Yes exactly. The larva example illustrates that there are different kinds of values. I thought it was underexplored in the OP to characterize exactly what these different kinds of values are.
In the sadist example we have:
the hardcoded pleasure of hurting people.
And we have, let’s assume, the wish to make other people happy.
These two things both seem like values. However, they seem to be qualitatively different kinds of values. I intuit that more precisely characterizing this difference is important. I have a bunch of thoughts on this that I failed to write up so far.