drift is harmful from the perspective of my current values
True. And that drift would be beneficial from the perspective of your new, drifted-to values.
But neither of those statements have any bearing on whether value drift (in general or any specific instance thereof) is good or bad.
Offer extended; I can be there about 6:40.
Sure. Google says it's not particularly out of the way. (I got a day job, around Brier Creek; coming from there puts me halfway to the meetup compared to coming from home).
I know this sounds snarky, but it's serious: Are you married?
Ideally a life partner will share many of your values, but no two people share all values, and you'll need to respect the ones that differ. (Even if you're both Bayesian, in area where you have different values/axioms you will not necessarily agree).
Assuming one already had an AI that is capable of understanding human psychology
From what I understand, that's actually the hard part of the Friendliness problem.
a significant proportion of the LW posters are contrarians
I'm not!
Depends on the position. Remember Poe's Law - there are some positions where it's impossible to distinguish a parody from the real thing.
Attempt to make beliefs pay rent, and beliefs in the supernatural will likely melt away as they fail to constrain your anticipated experiences.
And don't worry too much about supernatural beliefs. Just keep trying to make your beliefs correspond to reality, and see where that goes.
Good question :-)
We could measure them against some non-relativist ethical standard, like "US Dollars lost", "lives lost", "person-weeks stuck in traffic" or somesuch.