“Value capture” by Erich_Grunewald 🔸

This is a link post. This is an article published recently in the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. The abstract reads: Value capture occurs when an agent's values are rich and subtle — or developing in that direction. The agent enters a social environment that presents simplified — typically quantified — versions of those values; and those simplified articulations come to dominate their practical reasoning. Examples include becoming motivated by FitBit's step counts, Twitter Likes and Retweets, citation rates, ranked lists of best schools, and Grade Point Averages. We are vulnerable to value capture because of the competitive advantage that such crisp and clear expressions of value have in our private reasoning and our public justification. But value capture poses several threats. First, value capture threatens to change the goals of our activities, in a way that often threatens to undermine the value of those activities. Twitter's scoring system [...] --- First published: October 26th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/b6w9jFzh7mrfbjafK/value-capture --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.