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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.