PhilPapers
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PhilPapers
- C. THI NGUYEN: Value capture cases are cases in which you have rich, subtle, maybe inchoate values or you’re in the process of making them. And then you enter something in the world and the world offers you a simple, pre-established, already standardized, incorporated into a technology simple version of that value system.
from Are We Measuring Our Lives in All the Wrong Ways? by C. Thi Nguyen
Emilie Kormienko added
Value Capture!
This pre-print article explores the concept of value capture, where individuals adopt externally-sourced values without adapting them to their own context.
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adding to my canon - this was excellent
- The main paper I've been working on for the last 3 years is out: "Value Capture"! It's about the harms of taking on external metrics and rankings as your own core values. The argument: you're outsourcing your values. It's fast, but then your values won't be tailored to you.🧵:
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