scaphandre comments on On Terminal Goals and Virtue Ethics - Less Wrong

67 Post author: Swimmer963 18 June 2014 04:00AM

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 19 June 2014 08:25:25AM * -2 points [-]

So who would you kill if they stood between you and a good barbecue?

( it's almost like you guys haven't thought about what terminal means)

Comment author: scaphandre 19 June 2014 03:09:23PM 3 points [-]

I think the 'terminal' in terminal goal means 'end of that thread of goals', as in a train terminus. Something that is wanted for the sake of itself.

It does not imply that you will terminate someone to achieve it.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 19 June 2014 03:36:51PM -1 points [-]

If g1 is you bacon eating goal, ,and g2 is your not killing people goal, and g2 overrides g1, then g2 is the end of the thread.