Re: [agi] Goals and subgoals

2006-12-22 Thread Ben Goertzel
Hi Phil, In the language I am using * goal A is a subgoal of goal B if achieving goal A is a special case of goal B * a top-level supergoal of a system, is a goal of the system that is not a subgoal of any other goal of the system (to a significant degree) * a meta-goal is a goal that is speci

Re: [agi] Goals and subgoals

2006-12-22 Thread Philip Goetz
On 12/7/06, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: erased along with it. So, e.g. even though you give up your supergoal of drinking yourself to death, you may involuntarily retain your subgoal of drinking (even though you started doing it only out of a desire to drink yourself to death). I

Re: [agi] Goals and subgoals

2006-12-22 Thread Philip Goetz
On 12/7/06, Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ben Goertzel wrote: > 1) optimizing the set of subgoals chosen in pursuit of a given set of > supergoals. This is well-studied in computer science and operations > research. Not easy computationally or emotionally, but conceptually > stra