In the case of an individual using substrate to reason about their life, it would be useful to have a list of Questions to start thinking about.
An example could be these below (source) which in combination with AI could help frame a conversation with the AI agent in order to extract the key Values:
- if money and status were no object, what would I do?
- if I wasn't afraid of other people's opinions what would I say?
- what actually makes me happy?
- does success make me happy?
- what is my definition of success?
- what is my definition of success if money was taken out of the equation?
- what is my definition of success if money and followers were taken out of the equation?
- what are the things that I’m hiding from myself?
- what are the emotions that I’m unprepared to feel?
- what are the things that I feel the most shame and guilt around?