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I wasn't claiming that they should be normatively outlawed, just that in practice in human beings, they lead to logical inconsistency. On the other hand, in a perfect AI, they wouldn't necessarily lead to inconsistency, but the less important goal would be completely ignored, as Liron says, and therefore effectively you would still have Archimedean values.