you don't want to elevate not optimizing something too much as a goal (and it's difficult to say what that would mean), while just working on optimizing the top-level goal unpacks this impulse as appropriate.

For example, do I parse it as "to elevate not optimizing something too much" or as "don't want ... too much". And what impulse is "this impulse"?

There is valid intuition ("impulse") that in certain contexts, some sub-goals, such as "replace old buildings with better new ones" shouldn't be given t... (read more)