Tim, if you understand that the “values” of evolution qua optimization process are not the values of the organisms it produces, what was the point of your 12:20 PM comment of March 6? “Terminal values” in the post refers to the terminal values of organisms. It is, as Eliezer points out, an empirical fact that people don’t consciously seek to maximize fitness or any one simple value. Sure, that makes us “irrational, malfunctioning or broken” by the metaphorical standards of some metaphorical personification of evolution, but I should think that’s rather besides the point.
Tim, if you understand that the “values” of evolution qua optimization process are not the values of the organisms it produces, what was the point of your 12:20 PM comment of March 6? “Terminal values” in the post refers to the terminal values of organisms. It is, as Eliezer points out, an empirical fact that people don’t consciously seek to maximize fitness or any one simple value. Sure, that makes us “irrational, malfunctioning or broken” by the metaphorical standards of some metaphorical personification of evolution, but I should think that’s rather besides the point.