Or from the other direction: if you say, “because I’m human”, then why don’t you talk about doing things to favor e.g. “white people’s values”?
I think this way of posing the question contains a logical mistake. Values aren’t always justified by other values. The factual statement “I have this value because evolution gave it to me” (i.e. because I’m human, or because I’m white) does not imply “I follow this value because it favors humans, or whites”. Of course I’d like FAI to have my values, pretty much by definition of “my values”. But my values have a term for other people, and Eliezer’s values seem to be sufficiently inclusive that he thought up CEV.
I think this way of posing the question contains a logical mistake. Values aren’t always justified by other values. The factual statement “I have this value because evolution gave it to me” (i.e. because I’m human, or because I’m white) does not imply “I follow this value because it favors humans, or whites”. Of course I’d like FAI to have my values, pretty much by definition of “my values”. But my values have a term for other people, and Eliezer’s values seem to be sufficiently inclusive that he thought up CEV.