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You have to have a core of arational desires/goals/values. Otherwise, you're just a logic engine with nothing to prove.
Upvoted. To extend Eliezer's favorite metaphor, rationality makes it easy to get where you're going by making the map closely match the territory, but merely having a good map won't tell you where you want to go.