Tim_Tyler comments on Not for the Sake of Happiness (Alone) - Less Wrong
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According to the theory of evolution, organisms can be expected to have approximately one terminal value - which is - very roughly speaking - making copies of their genomes. There /is/ intragenomic conflict, of course, but that's a bit of a detail in this context.
Organisms that deviate very much from this tend to be irrational, malfunctioning or broken.
The idea that there are some values not reducible to happiness does not prove that there are "a lot of terminal values".
Happiness was never God's utitily function in the first place. Happiness is just a carrot.