Alien values

There are no rules requiring minds to value life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness. An alien will have, in all probability, alien values. If an "alien" isn't evolved, the range of possible values increases even more, allowing such absurdities as a Paperclip maximizer. Creatures with alien values might as well value only non-sentient life, or they might spend all their time building heaps of prime numbers of rocks.

Blog posts

• Humans in Funny Suits
• Sorting Pebbles Into Correct Heaps

See also

• Giant cheesecake fallacy
• Complexity of value
• Mind design space, Paperclip maximizer
• Anthropomorphism, Human universal