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Your values is at least something that on reflection you'd be glad happened, which doesn't apply to acting on human explicit beliefs that are often imprecise or wrong. More generally, any heuristic for good decisions you know doesn't qualify. "Don't kill people" doesn't qualify. Values are a single criterion that doesn't tolerate exceptions and status quo assumptions. See magical categories for further discussion.
But that may not be what Ben implied when saying
(I read it as "our ancestors" meaning "the ancient Greeks", not, "early primates" but I may be wrong)
In a certain sense "primordial single celled replicator" may be an even more relevant comparison than either. Left free to deviate Nash would weed out those pesky 'general primate values'.