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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
... See moreSteven Hayes • A Liberated Mind: The essential guide to ACT
Values — like policies, plans, and goals — are heuristics to help us avoid an infinite calculation each time we want to act. Instead of calculating in each conversation, at each moment, what to reveal and what to conceal, a person adopts the general value of being honest, by default. So, values are a form of knowledge about what works in general,... See more
Joe Edelman • Human Values

How Buffett and Munger set incentives:
Everyone has heard: "Show me the incentives -- and I'll show you the outcome"
But what do good incentives actually look like?
Here's the incentive system Buffett and Munger used for GEICO:
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Values in the Wild: Discovering and Analyzing Values in Real-World Language Model Interactions
A study analyzes values expressed by AI model Claude in real-world interactions, identifying 3,307 unique values, their context dependencies, and the relationship between AI and human values through extensive conversation analysis.
assets.anthropic.comACT 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
In particular, he contends that questions of justice are prior to questions of happiness. In other words, it is only when we regard a particular pleasure as just that we can judge whether it has any value.