This seems like a strange viewpoint. If value is something about which one can make ‘truthy’ and ‘falsey’ - or something that we converge to given enough time and intelligent thought if you prefer—then it’s akin to maths and aliens would be a priori as likely to ‘discover’ it as we are. If it’s arbitrary, then longtermism has no philosophical justification, beyond the contingent caprices of people who like to imagine a universe filled with life.
Also if it’s arbitrary, then over billions of years even human-only descendants would be very unlikely to stick with anything resembling our current values.
This seems like a strange viewpoint. If value is something about which one can make ‘truthy’ and ‘falsey’ - or something that we converge to given enough time and intelligent thought if you prefer—then it’s akin to maths and aliens would be a priori as likely to ‘discover’ it as we are. If it’s arbitrary, then longtermism has no philosophical justification, beyond the contingent caprices of people who like to imagine a universe filled with life.
Also if it’s arbitrary, then over billions of years even human-only descendants would be very unlikely to stick with anything resembling our current values.