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To start, take out a piece of paper and write for ten minutes about a value you care about deeply in any domain from the list I just gave you. Really do it—ten minutes is not very long! As you do so, address the following questions: What do I care about in this area? What do I want to do in this area that reflects that caring? When in my life has
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Joe Edelman • Human Values
Values in the Wild: Discovering and Analyzing Values in Real-World Language Model Interactions
ACT defines values as chosen qualities of being and doing. They can be expressed with verbs and adverbs: teaching compassionately, giving gratefully.
Steven Hayes • A Liberated Mind: The essential guide to ACT
value is something that’s based on a social context. The value given to a one-dollar bill is not an objectively attributed value, though that might be a commonsense approach. If one considers its actual cost as printed material, the value is nowhere near a dollar.
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
Values are enduring, ongoing guides to living. You cannot achieve a value; you can only manifest it by acting in accordance with it.
Steven Hayes • A Liberated Mind: The essential guide to ACT
When evaluating a transaction, traditional economic models simply compare the value to the price. Real, human people, however, compare value to price plus other elements, like fairness.
Dan Ariely • Dollars and Sense
In their view, moral behavior maximizes the most pleasure for the most people and minimizes the most pain. That’s the core idea of utilitarianism. Other things like character or intentions and so on don’t really matter. What matters are consequences, what philosophers called consequentialism. Now, this was quite a major shift in moral thinking and
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