From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Dec 15 1998 - 14:04:49 MST
Samael wrote:
>
> 1) One must have a reason to do something before one does it.
> 2) If one has an overarching goal, one would modify one's subgoals to reach
> the overarching goal but would not modify the overarching goal, because one
> would not have a reason to do so.
I suggest that you take a look at
http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/AI_design.temp.html#det_igs
for an explanation of how to build goal systems without initial
("overarching") goals.
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