timtyler comments on If it looks like utility maximizer and quacks like utility maximizer... - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 13 June 2009 05:06:17AM 0 points [-]

Ben calls those "implicit" and "explicit" goals here:

http://cosmistmanifesto.blogspot.com/2009/01/goals-explicit-and-implicit.html

Not great terminology - can we do better?

Another big one is: the goal(s) we want others to believe we have. Often "save the whales" - or some other piece of selfless signalling.