Hello and welcome back to Get Fit Guy, Kevin Don here for what is, I thought was episode 700, but I'm told that it's actually episode 696.

Very exciting times indeed, or at least they would be if I attached any meaning whatsoever to

arbitrary numerical values. This week's episode is going to be about values, actually. I'm going to

define values, explain value capture, and provide an example of value capture and fitness and why it

could be problematic.

So, what are values exactly?

Well, values are fundamental beliefs that guide decision-making.

Usually they are ethical or moral in nature.

The difference between ethics and morals being that ethics tend to be right versus wrong

in a much larger set. So we could have something like medical ethics which would guide right

versus wrong in medicine as a field. And morals are what guide me personally. Morals are also agent relative, which mean they're about what's

right or wrong to any conscious agent, an agent in this case, perhaps being a rational entity.

I'm also very sorry for using mad words like entity and agency. I know that some listeners

absolutely hate it, but language is also kind of important to

get right and also corresponds directly to all objects in the universe. So now that we have a base

description of what values are, what's value capture? So this is a process of your values,

values being captured or changed, or for your process

of practical reasoning to become dominated by new metrics. Practical reasoning, for a quick

example, would be something like attaining goal G is important. Performing action A takes me closer to goal G, therefore I should perform

action A. So how does an external metric or an external force come to dominate my practical

reasoning and capture my values?

Well, usually it's when an agent has a very rich and textured set of values.

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