Konkvistador comments on A funny argument for traditional morality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 23 September 2011 11:55:18AM *  0 points [-]

If it is possible to meta-evaluate values this way, then you should seek to improve your values any way you can. if it is not possible to meta-evaluate values, then you don't know that your existing values are optimal or any good at all.

Can you expand by what you mean by meta-evaluate? I can understand analysing values by a framework that has nothing to do with my values. But why would I try to maximise some metric employed by this framework, so I'm confused as to why I don't end up just following my values.