From: Max More (max@maxmore.com)
Date: Thu Jun 07 2001 - 18:49:49 MDT
At 10:50 AM 6/7/01, you wrote:
>Would you people please, please, PLEASE get into the habit of
>distinguishing between subgoals and supergoals?
>
>Subgoal content: Events or states whose desirability is contingent on
>their predicted outcomes.
>Supergoal content: Events or states with "inherent" desirability, i.e.
>desirability not contingent on predicted outcome.
Shades of Kant:
Subgoal = hypothetic imperative
Supergoal = categorical imperative
This isn't the way I would use "subgoal" and "supergoal". I would use them
such that supergoals are "higher" level rather than inherently desirable.
I'm not convinced that there are any supergoals in the sense you intend.
Cheers,
Max
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