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So all of your actions in the present moment is guided towards your brothers happiness? I didn't mean switching between goals as situations change, only one goal.
My terminal goal is that I exist and be happy.
Lots of things make me happy, from new books to walks in the woods to eating a ripe pear to handing my brother an ice cream cone.
Sometimes trying to achieve the terminal goal involves trading off which things I like more against each other, or even doing something I don't like in order to be able to do something I like a lot in the future. Sometimes it means trying new things in order to figure out if there's anything I need to add to the list of things I like. Sometimes it means trying to improve my general a... (read more)