Vladimir_Nesov comments on Human values differ as much as values can differ - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 04 May 2010 12:25:34AM -2 points [-]

But the whole endeavor is full of unjustified assumptions about what values are, and what values we should pursue.

Not that I know of. On the contrary, the assumption is that one shouldn't posit statements about which values human actually have, and what kind of mathematical structure values are is an open problem.