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OK, fine, literally speaking, value drift is bad.
But if I live to see the Future, then my values will predictably be updated based on future events, and it is part of my current value system that they do so. I affirmatively value future decisions being made by entities that have taken a look at what the future is actually like and reflected on the data they gain.
Why should this change if it turns out that I don't live to see the future? I would like future-me to be one of the entities that help make future decisions, but failing that, my second-best option is to have future-others make those decisions. I don't want present-me's long dead hand to go around making stupid decisions for other people.
Even if future people's values seem bizarre to present-me, that just reflects the fact that it takes a while to process the data that leads to shifts in value. Presumably, if you show me the values and the cultural/demographic landscape of 2050 now, then by 2020 I'll endorse many of them and be chewing on most of the rest. Why arbitrarily privilege my initial disgust over my considered reaction?
That's not our value system changing, that's your assessment of how to best achieve your values changing edit: or your best guess of what your values actually are changing. end edit You're using the term 'value' in a different sense from the original post.