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Comment author: magfrump 01 April 2010 05:24:16PM 1 point [-]

I value my physical human needs, similarly to Maslow.

I endeavor to value larger, long-term contributions to my needs more than short term ones.

I often act as though I value others' needs approximately in relation to how well I know them, though I endeavor to value others' needs equally to my own. Specifically I do this when making a conscious value calculation rather than doing what "feels right."

I almost always fulfill my own basic needs before fulfilling the higher needs of others; I justify this by saying that I would be miserable and ineffective otherwise but it's very difficult to make my meat-brain go along with experiments to that end.

My conscious higher order values emerge from these.