C. Thi Nguyen

So my worry about this stuff

is that you're outsourcing your values.

And that part of what outsourcing your values is, is that you're not developing a sense of what matters to you.

You're accepting a pre-made value system from outside.

And because of the nature of the value systems you're accepting, they're typically thinned out and portable in exactly the way we talked about before, right?

I think one reason that people often become obsessed with something like

weight or BMI, and I have been, this is like in part like personal confession, is it's very easy to communicate because it's just like my knees feel better and I feel healthier and I feel happier when I move through this stuff.

It's very hard to cross compare or communicate, right?

I lost 10 pounds is something that makes sense to everyone and that I can quickly compare.

Like I lost 10 pounds, you lost eight pounds, I did better.

Yo!

So one of the worries about value capture is that you are taking on values from the outside and that those values have a particular character.

And it's this like denuanced, decontextualized, portable character.

But I think the deepest thing underneath, and this is the thing I wanted to talk about before, was that in value capture cases, part of the outsourcing means you don't have to figure out for yourself what you care about.

I mean, so there's this example from

Actually you laughed.

I want to know why you laughed.

One way to put it is that things like having a meaningful life, a satisfying life, a rich life, a fun life, having good friendships, these are all like, they're kind of quiet and then other things are very loud.

I mean, I feel this constantly.

I feel like, I mean,