I see. I thought you meant take some other AI and apply breakpoints at incremental goal boundaries, and reset its goal system at that time.

I don't think this would work. Eventually it's going to reach a local maximum and have to sit down and think much harder to do valley-crossing (this will likely come at the end of a sequence of longer and longer optimization times finding this peak, so run-time won't be surprising). Then it is forced to do the long-term-make-life-easier-'evil-things'.