https://www.baryudin.com/tags/national-ai-strategies/ Recent content in National AI Strategies on Andre's blog Hugo en-gb Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.baryudin.com/blog/on-value/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.baryudin.com/blog/on-value/ <p>Value is one of the most fundamental things in human society, in human life, and perhaps in the universe itself for anything that thinks. Yet it is seldom discussed explicitly or directly. Value, in its most primitive form, is simply what tells us whether something is good or bad, or whether one option is better than another.</p> <p>Its importance is obvious. Every day we make decisions: go left or right, ask or stay silent, say yes or no, eat or refrain. Each choice produces an outcome of higher or lower value for ourselves, for people we care about, for people we dislike, or for strangers we barely register. The trouble is that we often cannot assess that value with any reliability. The factors that matter may be unknown to us, or known only in outline, or known in detail yet still misjudged. Even when all the relevant data are in front of us, we can still assign value wrongly through ordinary human failings: stupidity, emotion, distraction, or a particularly vicious toothache. Humans are not perfect.</p>