Yes, but people also constantly exchange increased reproductive capacity for love, truth, and beauty (the world would look very different if reproductive capacity was the only terminal value people were optimizing for). It’s not that reproductive capacity isn’t a terminal value of humans, it’s that it’s not the only one, and people make tradeoffs for other terminal values all the time.
Yes, but people also constantly exchange increased reproductive capacity for love, truth, and beauty (the world would look very different if reproductive capacity was the only terminal value people were optimizing for). It’s not that reproductive capacity isn’t a terminal value of humans, it’s that it’s not the only one, and people make tradeoffs for other terminal values all the time.