Before “being something”, values need to actually exist as some kind of object. Non-existing object can’t have properties. For example, Sun exists, and thus we can discuss its mass. Zeus doesn’t exist, and it makes any discussion about his mass futile.
Guess: human values reflect beliefs about the modularity of reality. A necessary component of the counterfactual simulator.
The counterfactual simulator, in turn, seems to be about convex optimization of tradeoff space.
Before “being something”, values need to actually exist as some kind of object. Non-existing object can’t have properties. For example, Sun exists, and thus we can discuss its mass. Zeus doesn’t exist, and it makes any discussion about his mass futile.