I think an underrated possibility is that a lot of humans across human history aren’t falsifying their values or preferences, and they do actually have those values, it’s just that the values were terrible by your value/utility function, but they truly do value what society in general values.
More generally, I don’t buy the thesis that people are falsifying their preferences too much, and think that the claim that their values/wants are bad/oppressive only makes sense in a relative context, and only makes sense relative to someone else’s values.
This can also be said of civilizations.
BTW, this is most likely a reporting artifact due to better diagnostics, and is of no relevance in practice:
high incidence of people right now saying they’re traumatized.
I think an underrated possibility is that a lot of humans across human history aren’t falsifying their values or preferences, and they do actually have those values, it’s just that the values were terrible by your value/utility function, but they truly do value what society in general values.
More generally, I don’t buy the thesis that people are falsifying their preferences too much, and think that the claim that their values/wants are bad/oppressive only makes sense in a relative context, and only makes sense relative to someone else’s values.
This can also be said of civilizations.
BTW, this is most likely a reporting artifact due to better diagnostics, and is of no relevance in practice: