Axiology of the Future: Optimization or Flourishing?

The text analyzes the transition of human life parameters from the domain of fate to the domain of design decisions through technology and transhumanism. The author emphasizes the key distinction between instrumental values (means) and autotelic and constitutive values, which together constitute a good life. He warns against economic reductionism and the risk of misdefining the objective function in AI systems. The main threat is a situation where highly efficient technology optimizes measurable indicators (e.g., GDP or productivity), confusing them with actual well-being and human flourishing. In this context, the problem of alignment in artificial intelligence becomes not only a technical challenge but, above all, a profound axiological question about which values should be realized.