Intrinsic value

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Quote, "Excerpts from Intrinsic Value Explained.

Intrinsic Value Explained." End quote.

Wow.

It's, uh, quite the textual landscape we're dealing with today.

Right? [laughs] I mean, six words if we count excerpts from.

True.

So we have this document that promises to explain intrinsic value, and its only method of doing so is to literally echo itself.

is very, very real.

Your capacity to produce results that have intrinsic value is very related to your intelligence, but also the intrinsic value that you can instantiate.

What is it that makes humans valuable in the first place? What makes a human more valuable than a chimpanzee?

Well, we are talking about, okay, so I still think we're talking about utility.

I don't think chimpanzees share it.

And so in that sense, if you're talking about rationality being a really big deal to distinguish human beings from everybody else, I agree completely.

But let's go back to... qualities that are tiebreakers because of intrinsic value.

And let's get to the concept of IQ on the one hand versus goodness on the other.