These are just a few illustrative examples. The rate of research and publication for GWAS research is very high, and is accelerated by the existence of large, fully genotyped samples such as UK BioBank; to do genome-wide association studies on particular human values, it’s often sufficient just to add a few new questions to the surveys that are regularly sent out to genotyped research participants.
Oh I guess I should say, I do agree that Shard Theory seems like it could get too blank slatist. I just don’t agree with all of the arguments you presented. Though some of your arguments seem reasonable enough.
Ah, I was already aware of those, I was more thinking of the “political, religious, and moral ideology” values; those are the ones I hadn’t seen a genomic study of.
I also have some concerns with the notion that the studies you listed here are good examples, but that might be getting a bit too tangential? Idk, up to you if you feel like you want to discuss them.
tailcalled—I agree that we don’t yet have very good GWAS studies of political, religious, and moral ideology values; I was just illustrating that we already have ways of studying those (in principal), we have big genotyped samples in several international samples, and it’s just a matter of time before researchers start asking people in those samples about their more abstract kinds of values, and then publishing GWAS studies on those values.
So, I think we’re probably in agreement about that issue.
tailcalled—thanks for your comments.
As a preliminary reply: here are links to a few genome-wide association studies concerning human values and value-like traits of various sorts:
risk tolerance
delay discounting
anti-social behavior
extraversion
neuroticism
cannabis use
sexual orientation
These are just a few illustrative examples. The rate of research and publication for GWAS research is very high, and is accelerated by the existence of large, fully genotyped samples such as UK BioBank; to do genome-wide association studies on particular human values, it’s often sufficient just to add a few new questions to the surveys that are regularly sent out to genotyped research participants.
Oh I guess I should say, I do agree that Shard Theory seems like it could get too blank slatist. I just don’t agree with all of the arguments you presented. Though some of your arguments seem reasonable enough.
Ah, I was already aware of those, I was more thinking of the “political, religious, and moral ideology” values; those are the ones I hadn’t seen a genomic study of.
I also have some concerns with the notion that the studies you listed here are good examples, but that might be getting a bit too tangential? Idk, up to you if you feel like you want to discuss them.
tailcalled—I agree that we don’t yet have very good GWAS studies of political, religious, and moral ideology values; I was just illustrating that we already have ways of studying those (in principal), we have big genotyped samples in several international samples, and it’s just a matter of time before researchers start asking people in those samples about their more abstract kinds of values, and then publishing GWAS studies on those values.
So, I think we’re probably in agreement about that issue.