I may have been imprecise with terminology in that comment, but the query is coherent and involves no such conflation. The referent of "belief" there is "belief about whether one ought to indefinitely extend one's life through methods like cryopreservation", which is indeed an expression of values. Your judgment of the merit of my comparison is hasty.
The conflation occurs within the impricision of terminology.
The referent of "belief" there is "belief about whether one ought to indefinitely extend one's life through methods like cryopreservation"
Does this so called "belief" control anticipated experience or distinguish between coherent configurations of reality as making the belief true or false?
Your judgment of the merit of my comparison is hasty.
Even if the thoughts you were expressing were more virtuous than their expression, the quality of your communication matters.
Terminal values and preferences are not rational or irrational. They simply are your preferences. I want a pizza. If I get a pizza, that won't make me consent to get shot. I still want a pizza. There are a virtually infinite number of me that DO have a pizza. I still want a pizza. The pizza from a certain point of view won't exist, and neither will I, by the time I get to eat some of it. I still want a pizza, damn it.
Of course, if you think all of that is irrational, then by all means don't order the pizza. More for me."