Human social norms; definitions of optimizing for self, do not have to be maintained though; see the decline in religion.
Human society is not fractal; we die off, new social value stores come about; optimize for self could be defined as “not build environment destroying technology.”
A synthetic machine kept running but never allowed new inputs will just exist in long term belief in its old bullshit
But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what one does is barbaric.” — Ryszard Kapuściński