drethelin comments on Open Thread for February 18-24 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: drethelin 21 February 2014 12:47:06AM 0 points [-]

I'm having trouble imagining what these terminal goals are that can be optimized toward without having at least some familiar instrumental goals such as timekeeping, attaching things to other things, or murdering entities. Can you give me some examples?