Former technology executive now focused more on cognitive science and neuropsychology activities. Most of the time I work with teams on decision making and cognitive bias training (at decisionintel.co) and then use that work to fund critical thinking training for high school and university students. In my spare time I work on alternativemind.org, a research body established to study consciousness in synthetic environments. I've also published fiction and non-fiction for various publications, some good, some bad.
Also worth mentioning this concept "Value learning" is called out specifically in Nick Bostrom's book, Superintelligence, with the use of the envelope puzzle which goes a little something like this; "Suppose we write down a description of a set of values on a piece of paper. We fold that paper and put it in a sealed envelope. We then create an agent with human-level general Intelligence and give it the following final goal; Maximize the realisation of the values described in the envelope."
This feels very timely for me. My partner has suffered from chronic back pain (out of nowhere) for the last few years and we've been experimenting with various PRP, Glucose injections which have sadly, not provided the relief she needed.
I spend a great deal of time studying neuropsychology for uni and have been talking to some of the doctors about some cognitive options but it has mostly fallen on deaf ears. Your post made me buy that book—so thank you. I think we're going to give it a go, if nothing happens, we are no worse off.