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To continue the metaphor, some environmentalists do protest the building of motorways, although not to all that much effect, and rarely for the benefit of insects. But, we have no history of signing treaties with insects, nor does anyone reminisce about when they used to be an insect.
Regardless of whether posthumans would value humans, current humans do value humans, and also value continuing to value humans, so a correct implementation of CEV would not put humanity on a path where humanity would get wiped out. I think this is the sort of point at which TDT comes in, and so CEV could morph into CEV-with-constrains-added-at-initial-runtime. For instance, perhaps CEV(t)=C * CEV(0)+(1-C) * CEV(t) where CEV(t) means CEV evaluated at time t, and C is a constant fixed at t=0, determining how much values should remain unchanged.
Sounds good to me! I think post-singularity it might be good to fork yourself, with some copies heading off towards superintelligence quickly and others taking the scenic route and exploring baseline human activities first.