I feel like there’s some kind of disanalogy between the prime factorization case (where the goal itself is well-defined (the job is to “find the prime factorization, where N has a process-independent prime factorization”), and hence processes can be refined to become better processes in reaching the goal) and normative goals under the broadly-Humean framework (where the output of the procedure is the goal, and there’s no further goal to reach).
That said, I think there’s something in the vicinity of this that feels right to me. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I don’t know what the process I would actually endorse is, and in some sense, picking a process is a form of attempted discovery (about who I am/the kind of person I am and will be) rather than a choice I already have in hand.
I feel like there’s some kind of disanalogy between the prime factorization case (where the goal itself is well-defined (the job is to “find the prime factorization, where N has a process-independent prime factorization”), and hence processes can be refined to become better processes in reaching the goal) and normative goals under the broadly-Humean framework (where the output of the procedure is the goal, and there’s no further goal to reach).
That said, I think there’s something in the vicinity of this that feels right to me. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I don’t know what the process I would actually endorse is, and in some sense, picking a process is a form of attempted discovery (about who I am/the kind of person I am and will be) rather than a choice I already have in hand.