It is very coherent; however, I'm not sure how you would judge a goal's arbitrariness. From the human perspective it is rather arbitrary, since it's unrelated to most human desires.
--- Stathis Papaioannou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02/07/07, Jef Allbright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > While I agree with you in regard to decoupling > intelligence and any > > particular goals, this doesn't mean goals can be > random or arbitrary. > > To the extent that striving toward goals (more > realistically: > > promotion of values) is supportable by > intelligence, the values-model > > must be coherent. > > I'm not sure what you mean by "coherent". If I make > it my life's work > to collect seashells, because I want to have the > world's biggest > seashell collection, how does that rate as a goal in > terms of > arbitrariness and coherence? > > > -- > Stathis Papaioannou > > ----- > This list is sponsored by AGIRI: > http://www.agiri.org/email > To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: > http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&; > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get the free Yahoo! toolbar and rest assured with the added security of spyware protection. http://new.toolbar.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/norton/index.php ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&user_secret=7d7fb4d8
